Lots of Errors.

Hi Pierce,

first of all, you don't need to declare your response variable twice. There is no benefit of doing so.

But the true error seems to be when closing your do... while clause. You are trying to open an if statement but it's never opened nor closed correctly. The format of an if-statement is like this:

if (condition) {
  ...
}

Your compiler is probably giving you an error because it cannot find any of the curly braces { } in the line if (isInvalidAnswer). Regardless, in this particular problem you don't need this statement at all -- so just remove it completely.

You close the do... while correctly, however there is an excess closing curly brace } that shouldn't be there. Get rid of that as well. You should also have the while(isInvalidAnswer) on the same row as the other closing curly brace.

Here is the format for the do... while:

do {
  ...
} while (condition);

Here is how your final code should look like:

  // I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
  String response;
  boolean isInvalidAnswer;
  do {
    response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
    isInvalidAnswer = response.equalsIgnoreCase("no");
  } while(isInvalidAnswer);

Hope this helps! :)

It looks like you're declaring your variable a few times too many, and there's also an unessecary if condition in there.

Try leaving the variable undeclared outside of the loop, and getting rid of the if statement inside. There's also a closing brace underneath your while loop that needs to be removed.

It should look like

String response;
boolean isInvalidAnswer;
do {
    response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
    isInvalidAnswer = (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
    }
 while(isInvalidAnswer);

Thanks, let me know if this doesn't help.

I've update the code, but I'm still having a minor issue with my boolean statement.