MoneyOut.println("It took you (whats wrong?>",year,"<WW?) years to repay the loan")

[soc86]

My code is working fine apart from the last two lines:

MoneyOut.println("It took you ",year," years to repay the loan");
MoneyOut.println("The original loan was £",firstBal," but you had to pay back £",totalRepay);

I believe the error is where i am entering variables inbetween the text ie, ",year," any advise?


public static void main (String[]arg){
//declare variables
double loan;
double wages;
final int THRESHOLD= 10000;
double netInc=0;
double newBal=0;
double totalLoan;
double deduction;
double firstBal;
int year=1;
double totalRepay=0;

//print qoute
System.out.println("Enter total amount of student loan taken");
loan=UserInput.readDouble();
//print qoute
System.out.println("Enter anticipated income");
wages=UserInput.readDouble();

firstBal = newBal-0;

while (newBal >= 0) {

newBal=loan*0.03;

netInc=wages-THRESHOLD;
if (netInc>0)
deduction=netInc*0.09;
else
deduction =0;

totalLoan=loan+newBal;

newBal=totalLoan-deduction;

totalRepay= totalRepay+deduction;

MoneyOut.println("Year: "+year+" Old loan: £",loan);
MoneyOut.println("Loan plus 3% interest: £" ,totalLoan);
MoneyOut.println("wages: ",wages);
MoneyOut.println("Wages minus threshold: £" ,netInc);
MoneyOut.println("Amount Re-paid: £",deduction);
MoneyOut.println("New loan amount: £",newBal);

loan=newBal+0;
wages=wages +(wages*0.05);
year=year+1;
}

year=year-1;

MoneyOut.println("It took you ",year," years to repay the loan");
MoneyOut.println("The original loan was £",firstBal," but you had to pay back £",totalRepay);






}//end main

}//end class

[CJSLMAN]

You seriously have to learn to look things up... You even have correctly used println in your program in some cases:

MoneyOut.println("It took you "[B][COLOR="Blue"]+[/COLOR][/B]year[B][COLOR="Blue"]+[/COLOR][/B]" years to repay the loan"); 
MoneyOut.println("The original loan was £"[B][COLOR="Blue"]+[/COLOR][/B]firstBal[B][COLOR="Blue"]+[/COLOR][/B]" but you had to pay back £"[B][COLOR="Blue"]+[/COLOR][/B]totalRepay);

There are other printlns that you have to correct also.

Luck,
CJSL

[Eranga]

At least please read carefully the error message you get soc86.

It's all about string concatenation in Java. Actually it's common in many languages.