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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by Abhilasha jangid
Abhilasha jangid
2,925 Points

what going wrong with my statment??? in while codition

do while loop in java...

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.equals"No");

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,538 Points
andren
andren
28,538 Points

The issue is that you don't have parentheses following the equals method, you always have to add parentheses after a methods name when you call it. And the value you pass it ("No" in this case) goes inside of those parentheses.

Like this:

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