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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Joanna van der Veen
Joanna van der Veen
543 Points
Posted by Joanna van der Veen
Joanna van der Veen
543 Points

Trouble with second part of code challenge

Hi, I'm stumped as to what I need to do for this code challenge. Can anyone help?

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

1 Answer

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

when you do if and while statements instead of = you need to put == ( which means is equal to); when it is just one (=) it means that you are setting the variable to that value.

Joanna van der Veen
Joanna van der Veen
543 Points
Joanna van der Veen
Joanna van der Veen
543 Points

Thanks. I actually shuffled it around and made it work with:

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

Took me a while!