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Question

Ok I am still stuck in the loop. I have printed and used the the right coding and the program is still asking if I used console.printf Why?!

Example.java

// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
 String response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?  ");

do {
  response = console.readLine("Enter no:  ");
}while ( response.equals( "No"));

console.printf("Because you said Do you understand do while loops?  No , you passed the test!   ");

Answer 1 · 2015-06-25T00:13:52Z

June 25, 2015 12:13am

Sara;

A couple of things come to mind based on your code.

You have explicitly declared what response is outside of the do... while loop and then redefined it inside the loop. Try just defining response as a String without assigning it a value outside the loop and then gathering the appropriate response inside the loop.
In your console.printf statement, I don't see you using the string formatter and providing the response the user inputted in your outputted statement.

Without explicitly giving away the answer, I think the challenge is looking for something similar to:

// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.

String userName;

do {
userInput = console.readLine("Greetings, what is your name?");
} while (userInput.equals("Ken"));

console.printf ("Because you are named %s, you passed the test!", userInput);

If you try that code above, I would never be able to get out of the loop, right?

Post back if you are still stuck.

Happy coding,

Ken

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