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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

Java looping until the value passes

My coding passed the compiler but I get the message "Bummer: Did you use command console.printf to print a formatted..." the rest is covered by this dialog box. Yes I did use that command. Also I've forgotten how to attach my coding to this question.

Example.java 
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?  ");
} while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
console.printf("Because you said", response, ", you passed the test\n\n");

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Terence Evans! You're extremely close. But just because something compiles doesn't necessarily mean that it will pass the code challenge. There are a couple of things going on here. First, your string is missing an "!". Secondly, there are extraneous newline characters at the end. But finally, it's not using the the %s which was taught in this course to format the string.

It's looking for:

console.printf("Because you said %s, you passed the test!", response);

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Terence Evans
Terence Evans
1,870 Points

Thank you. I'm coming back to this after 3+ years and I've got a LOT of rust.