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Java Java Objects Delivering the MVP Validating and Normalizing User Input

John Anselmo
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John Anselmo
Courses Plus Student 2,281 Points
Posted by John Anselmo
John Anselmo
Courses Plus Student 2,281 Points

Do-while loop help

Can't you just call promptForGuess() whenever you have an error instead of doing a do while loop? That's what I did and it worked perfectly, however, I do think it is less work to just do the do-while loop right?

Kristopher Goodwin
Kristopher Goodwin
632 Points

I'm not a 100% on what your code looks like, but are you able to still print out the exception messages in the loop format?

Daan Visker
Daan Visker
782 Points

Do you mean in the Hangman.java code, or in the Prompter.java? I would expect that you might be repeating yourself at some place, or you might get in trouble with asking for a new entry and running through your maximum amount of tries. Without your example-code it is hard to say if it works the same or not.

However, as Craig has often remarked, there might be many different ways to accomplish the same goal!