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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Luis Ignacio Gomez
Luis Ignacio Gomez
567 Points

I do not know:

How to tell the console "hey, if the answer is "no", keep runing without using an "isInvalidWord" loop. Also Idk how to put that a while loop.

I feel like I do not know nothing :(

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? ");
}

2 Answers

Ivan Penchev
Ivan Penchev
13,833 Points

The logic of do-while can be found here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/images/cpp_do_while_loop.jpg

Basically you do something, atleast once and then check for the condition.

So lets see what you have? well you do indeed have what to do:

do {
  response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops? ");
}

but you are missing the condition.

How can we add the condition?? Lets check the documentation, its located here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/while.html The Java programming language also provides a do-while statement, which can be expressed as follows:

do {
     statement(s)
} while (expression);

so we need a while? OK!

so what should the condition be? Lets read your requirements: "How to tell the console "hey, if the answer is "no", keep runing "

So what is the "console" its an special object that we use that gives us input in the 'response ' variable. So for our condition we must evaluate that

in short, the answer is this:

do {
  response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops? ");
} while (response.equals("No"))

Be sure to vote this answer if it was helpful, or leave a comment if you have more questions.

Luis Ignacio Gomez
Luis Ignacio Gomez
567 Points

Thank you very much, your answer was very helpful! :)

Raffael Dettling
Raffael Dettling
32,999 Points

The while condition comes after the last } and use the equals methode to compare to strings and don´t use response == "NO" i made that mistake :) Everything else looks good ^^

}while(response.equals("No"));

Why you sould use equals => https://stackoverflow.com/questions/513832/how-do-i-compare-strings-in-java

Ivan Penchev
Ivan Penchev
13,833 Points

Thanks mate, nice catch with the equals method, I edited my answer because of you :) Been a long time since I used Java.

Raffael Dettling
Raffael Dettling
32,999 Points

You´re welcome :) I usually use the == operator too. Instead of using methods :D It´s way quicker