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Jason Drake
Courses Plus Student 203 PointsI can't figure this out for the life of me... Am I close?
Title... Sigh
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response = "Yes";
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
if(response.equalsIgnoreCase("no")){
console.printf("Try again");
}
}while
3 Answers
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 PointsHi Jason,
the do while loop is pretty handy. The statement inside the do-part will be executed at least once. So you can ask the user for input and so on. You should understand that until the consition inside the while parenthesis is true, the do part will be executed.
The loop stops if the condition is false.
So how to write the do-while loop:
do {
//here goes your code that should be executed at least once
} while (condition);
// while the condition is true, repeat the do-part of the loop
// if the condition is false, leave the loop and execute the code below
So the challenge can look like this:
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("No"));
// if you say "No", the condition is true and loop goes into do part again
//if you say Yes, the condition is false and the loop is over
console.printf("Because you said %s, you passed the test!", response);
// this line will only be executed if the loop is over - condition of while loop is false
Hope it helps
Grigorij
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,736 PointsYou're declaring the response variable twice, just do it once. Also you need to put the condition after the keyword while, not within the curly braces.
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
Jason Drake
Courses Plus Student 203 PointsThanks!
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 PointsYou are very welcome,
could you mark an answer as best, so other Java-Ninjas could see this.
Greg