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Java

Posted by Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
4,357 Points

Censoring Words - Looping until the value passes

I tried this already over and over. Can anybody please help me out.

here is my code...

Thanks for helping:-)

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  String noun;

        boolean isInvalidWord;

        do {

          noun = console.readLine("Enter a noun:  ");

          isInvalidword = (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || 

                            noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

          if (isInvalidWord) {

            console.printf("That language is not allowed.   Try again.   \n\n");

          }

        } while (isInvalidWord);
Alberto Sanchez
Alberto Sanchez
2,268 Points

//you are declaring the following variable in camel case

boolean isInvalidWord;

//but in this line you are using the following variable, isInvalidword,

isInvalidword = (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

//observe "w" is lower case, it should be capital as you declared it

//remember Java is case sensitive, this may fix your code,

isInvalidWord = (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

2 Answers

Alberto Sanchez
Alberto Sanchez
2,268 Points

String noun;

    boolean isInvalidWord;

    do {

      noun = console.readLine("Enter a noun:  ");

      isInvalidWord = (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || 

                        noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

      if (isInvalidWord) {

        console.printf("That language is not allowed.   Try again.   \n\n");

      }

    } while (isInvalidWord);
Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
4,357 Points
Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
4,357 Points

thank you very much. finally it's working :-)