[unhurt]

erm, well i don't know about ur while loop is it necessary for ur assignment but i change it to for loop it works fine.... hope u don't mind the while and for though.... but this is what i got just put this as ur while loop

Code:

		for (int i=0; i<squareSize; i++) {
			System.out.print("X");
		}

		for (int i=1; i<squareSize-1; i++) {
			System.out.print("\nX");

			for (int j=1; j<squareSize-1; j++) {
				System.out.print("-");
			}
			System.out.print("X");
		}
		if (squareSize != 1) {
			System.out.println();
			for (int i=0; i<squareSize; i++) {
				System.out.print("X");
			}
		}