Break to certain class

[Arez]

say I have this:

	public void handleInput()
	{
		mainMenu();
		String input=scanner.next();
		
		while (!input.startsWith("q"))
		{
			if (input.startsWith("a"))
			{
				System.out.println("1");
			} else if (input.startsWith("b"))
				System.out.println("2");
			} else if (input.startsWith("q"))
			{
				break;
			}
		}
		
	}




	private void handleTrigInput()
	{
		trigMenu();
		String input=scanner.next();

		while (!input.startsWith("q"))
		{
			if (input.startsWith("a"))
			{
				System.out.println("1");
			} else if (input.startsWith("q"))
			{
				break;
		        }
		handleInput();
	}

in the first class, when someone chooses "q", the entire program stops which is good.

in the handleTrigInput class when "q" is selected it goes back to handleInput like it should, but then i cant quit out of the first menu.

what's wrong here? is there a simple way to break to another class?

[CJSLMAN]

You need to post the rest of the code.

• What does the startsWith method do?
• What does the handleInput method do?

Something that you can do is use println() through out your code to follow flow and help you debug.
CJSL

[Norm]

A few comments:
The break statement is to exit a loop, not a class.
You don't exit a class, you exit a method.
"break to another class" doesn't make sense.
To exit from a method you can return.

[racerxadam]

Is it just me or does it look like you will never execute

 else if (input.startsWith("q"))
			{
				break;
			}

inside of a while loop with the condition

while (!input.startsWith("q"))

[fishtoprecords]

If this is not homework, and you want to really parse options and switches, I recommnd
JSAP: The Java Simple Argument Parser