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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Censoring Words - Looping Until the Value Passes

Andrew Minert
Andrew Minert
3,984 Points
Posted by Andrew Minert
Andrew Minert
3,984 Points

Error with my Do While Loop.

I wrote this line of code, as directed in the video.

String name;
      do {
         name = console.readLine("Enter your name:  ");
        if (name.equals("dork") ||
            name.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"))
          {
            console.printf("That Language is not allowed.  Try agian!");
          }
      } while (name.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") ||
              (name.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

The error message is this 

 Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m                                                                                                                                    
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m                                                                                                                                        
TreeStory.java:31: error: ')' expected                                                                                                                                   
              (name.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));                                                                                                                           
                                             ^                                                                                                                           
1 error

What did I do wrong?

1 Answer

Michael Liebegott
Michael Liebegott
3,960 Points

Hey there, Andrew!

It took me a few minutes to find the error, but I believe it has to do with you not having enough parentheses ( ) around your while conditional.

You have 

(name.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || (name.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

If you count the ()s from left to right, you'll see you have 7. A good rule of thumb is to ensure you always have an even amount of opening and closing parentheses. You're missing one on the left (or have too many, depending on how you want to format your code) at the beginning of the conditional loop. Your code should look like this:

while (name.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || name.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));

Hope this helps! :-)

Andrew Minert
Andrew Minert
3,984 Points
Andrew Minert
Andrew Minert
3,984 Points

Exactly right! Thank you for the help!