[Phobos0001]

first off, sorry for pasting in the wrong code above here, i tried to edit it however i dont have permissions, no matter though.

ok now ive got the loop sorted out and the rest of the code is pretty solid, no compile errors, but i may have missed some "logical" errors, but the program works, so im happy.

i do have one final thing to do, and i cant figure out why i cant get it to work..
i want to build a report of the acumulated totals, such as total tax, total including tax, ect, ect.

for that i need to write something like

Code:

ftax=tax++
ftotal=total++

is that right? if ftax and total are double data types and not intergers?

also i want to work out the average age, would i go about that by doing something like this..

Code:

int counter,age
counter=0;
{ 
my input loop here
tage=age++
counter ++
}
average=tage/counter

is this a bad approach to do it?..
this is the program as it stands now, completed but the 2nd to last information_message does not accumulate the totals

Code:

import javax.swing.*;  //impors java gui for dialog boxes ect
import java.text.*;	//imports java texts for text formatting
import java.io.*;	//imports input output detection and information (i think i need this)

public class test	//defines class name and access
{
  public static void main(String[] args)	//begins body
  {
  	String agebox, namebox; //assigning variables names and datatypes
  	double fee, age, tax, total, ffee, fage, ftax, ftotal;
  	
  	fee = 20.50; //initialising variables that require manual initialisation
  	ffee = 0;
  	fage = 0;
  	ftax = 0;
  	ftotal = 0;
  	
  	DecimalFormat num = new DecimalFormat(",##.00"); //formatting the text
  	
	namebox =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Member's Name, leave blank to exit member entry ");	// user input for name
	int len=namebox.length(); //declaring len as lenght of the namebox string
	while (len !=0)
	{
   	agebox =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Member's Age: ");	//user input for age
  	age = Double.parseDouble(agebox);  	// assign age as a double for if-else chain             
                
  	if (age <= 7 )	//if-else chain for the member's fee
  	  	  	{JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Warning Member's age is too low to leave unsurpervised",
  			"WARNING!",
  			JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);}  //warn operater of young age			
  	else if (age <=17)
  	{ fee = 20.50;}  	
  	else if (age <=21)
  	{ fee = 32.25;}  		
  	else
  	{ fee = 45.75;}	//end of if else chain
  	
  	tax = fee*10/100; //calculating tax and assigining it to a variable
  	total = tax + fee; // adding fee and tax and assiginging it to a variable
  	
  			   JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, 
               "The member's name is " + namebox + "\nThe Member's age is " + agebox + "\nMember's fee is " + fee + "\nMember's tax is " + tax + "\nMember's fee including tax is " + total,
               "Gym Program", 
                JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);	//display's information of the current member
   	namebox =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Member's Name, leave blank to exit member entry ");	// user input for name
	len=namebox.length(); //declaring len as length of the namebox string
	fage=age++;
	ffee=fee++;
	ftax=tax++;
	ftotal=total++; 	
   	}   	
   	JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, 
               "Today's totals are..." + "\ntotal age is: " + fage + "\ntotal fee is " + ffee + "\ntotal tax is: " + ftax + "\ntotal including tax is: " + ftotal,
               "Gym Program", 
                JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);	//display's information of the current member
	JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Thanks for using the program","beyatch",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
     System.exit(0);  
  }
}

thanks again everyone