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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by hector pulido
hector pulido
2,763 Points

in this case the Boolean declaretion is a variable or what ? why in the bigining we declare the bolean without a value

I wanna know why we can declare a variable = to not value and the bolean not String response = ""; boolean isInvalidWord;

Example.java 
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response =" ";
boolean isInvalidWord;
do {
  response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?  ");
  isInvalidWord = (response.equalsIgnoreCase("No"));
  if (isInvalidWord);
  } while(isInvalidWord);
console.printf("Because you said %s,you passed the test!",response);

1 Answer

jb30
jb30
44,806 Points
jb30
jb30
44,806 Points

In the line boolean isInvalidWord; the variable isInvalidWord is declared to be of the type boolean. Any boolean value you give it in its declaration will be ignored because inside the do-while loop, its value is set to (response.equalsIgnoreCase("No")); before its value is checked. You could similarly change String response =" "; to String response;, since whatever value it has gets overwritten in the first line inside the do section of the do-while loop. The do section of the do-while loop runs once before the while condition is checked.

isInvalidWord and response are declared before the do-while loop so that their values are accessible outside the do section of the do-while loop.

The line if (isInvalidWord); does not do anything with its result, and can be removed.