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Thread: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

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    Default How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    Hello
    Guys i working in a program that i enter strings
    until the user write Stop, STOP, stop
    how do i stop it

    i did this

    [
    I'm going out
    Today is hot
    I love to play
     
     
     
    it should print
     
    1 I'm going out
    2 Today is hot
    3 I love to play.
    Last edited by WantHelp; July 4th, 2011 at 01:50 PM.


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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    it didn't work!!!
    Your posted code does NOT show any print statements. You need to show the code where the problem is.
    Read the String class API doc for a method that may do what you want when comparing Strings with different cases.

    Another problem: Use the equals method to compare String objects, not the == operator.

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    WantHelp are you deleting any posts? I can't see any of your attempted code & I'd like to help

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Stockholm Syndrome View Post
    WantHelp are you deleting any posts?
    Yes. I believe OP removes their code as soon as the problem is resolved. Which does make it confusing and frustrating for others who come along afterwards.

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    In this case the code that was posted was mostly junk. It didn't have any print statements as the title implies. Mostly it was a bunch of if tests using == for Strings.

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    Posters who persistently remove their code from posts should be warned, and banned if they continue to do it.

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    I used KeyboardReader from TerminalIO, you can change it if you need too. Also change the array size as you need and modify it as you want, I don't know exactly what you're looking for. Hopefully my comments help you, good luck.

    import TerminalIO.KeyboardReader;
     
    public class NumberStrings {
    	public static void main (String[] args) {
     
    		String[] phrases = new String[10]; // Create a string array to hold values you enter
    		phrases[0] = "placeholder"; // Initialize the first position as a placeholder
    		int x = 0; // Create an integer value used to update the array
    		KeyboardReader reader = new KeyboardReader(); // Create a keyboard reader
     
    		// Store the strings until the user enters "stop"
    		while (true) {
    			phrases[x] = reader.readLine();
    			phrases[x+1] = "placeholder";
     
    			// Test whether the current entry contains "stop"
    			if (phrases[x].equalsIgnoreCase("stop")) {
    				break;
    			} else {
    				x++;
    			}
    		}
     
    		System.out.println(); // Create a line space
     
    		// Print each entry
    		for (int y = 0; y < x; y++) {
    			System.out.println((y+1) + ". " + phrases[y]);
    		}
     
    		reader.pause(); // Prevent fly-by
    	}
    }

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    phrases[0] = "placeholder"; // Initialize the first position as a placeholder
    phrases[x+1] = "placeholder";
    Why???

    A. Don't spoonfeed code.
    B. Don't spoonfeed code it if contains bad practises.

    Also, your code will throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if user never enters "stop".
    Improving the world one idiot at a time!

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    Default Re: How to place a number in front of a string?!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Junky View Post
    phrases[0] = "placeholder"; // Initialize the first position as a placeholder
    phrases[x+1] = "placeholder";
    Why???

    A. Don't spoonfeed code.
    B. Don't spoonfeed code it if contains bad practises.

    Also, your code will throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if user never enters "stop".
    Yeah I don't really know what he is looking for and got lazy and made it really fast.

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