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Colt Shelby
1,175 PointsDo while loop only executes once? Simple password program
I am trying to just practice some basic Java but this do while loop only goes once. This program is pretty basic and not useful at all I'm just testing out the do while loop pretty much. I'm very new to java sorry if the code looks bad.
import java.io.Console;
public class quiz {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Console console = System.console();
console.printf("\033[H\033[2J");
String info = console.readLine("Enter your secret information: ");
console.printf("\033[H\033[2J");
String password;
String passwordAttempt;
boolean correctPassword == false;
do {
password = console.readLine("Enter a password: ");
console.printf("\033[H\033[2J");
passwordAttempt = console.readLine("If you would like to access this information please enter the password:\n");
correctPassword = (passwordAttempt.equals(password));
if (passwordAttempt.equals(password)) {
console.printf("\n%s", info);
}else {
console.printf("Incorrect password! Please retry: \n");
}
}
while (correctPassword);
}
}
2 Answers
Steven Parker
243,656 PointsIt would execute only once if your entry was wrong, it would loop again if correct.
This is probably the opposite of the behavior you'd really like to have. You can invert the test to get it the other way:
while (!correctPassword);
Colt Shelby
1,175 PointsColt Shelby
1,175 PointsI think I understand what you're saying. I tried to replace the last
while (correctPassword);with what you said, but it still only executes once when the password is incorrect. Was that the only correction that I had to do in order to fix it? Thank you