Issues with a while loop

[Lang]

The code is below. What is happening is that my while statement is never evaluating to false when it should be.

I did a System.out.println(goDir) after I set it to true. It showed the value to be equal to true. Shouldn't the while loop stop as soon as the statement is false? I also tried a

do{

} while(!goDir && lastHit[i][6] > 0);

And that didn't seem to work either. Does anyone see anything wrong with this code? Also, i is always greater than 1 when this while statement goes off. So lastHit[i-1] does exist.

while (!goDir && lastHit[i][6] > 0){
	System.out.println("goDir = " + goDir);
	System.out.println("lastHit[i][6] = " + lastHit[i][6]);
	
	if (lastHit[i][6] > 0){
		System.out.println("X Difference = " + (startX - lastHit[i-1][0]));								
		
		System.out.println("2 = " + lastHit[i][2]);
		System.out.println("3 = " + lastHit[i][3]);
		System.out.println("4 = " + lastHit[i][4]);
		System.out.println("5 = " + lastHit[i][5]);
		
		
		if ((startX - lastHit[i-1][0]) > 0){
			System.out.println("X + 1");
			
			if (lastHit[i][2] == 1){
				if ((startX + 1) <= boardWidth){
					startX++;
					
					lastHit[i][2] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
					
					goDir = true;
				}else{
					lastHit[i][2] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
				}
			}
		}
		else if ((startX - lastHit[i-1][0]) < 0){
			System.out.println("X - 1");
			
			if (lastHit[i][3] == 1){
				if ((startX - 1) >= 0){
					startX--;
			
					lastHit[i][3] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
					
					goDir = true;
				}else{
					lastHit[i][3] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
				}
			}								
		}
		
		if ((startY - lastHit[i-1][1]) > 0){
			System.out.println("Y + 1");
			
			if (lastHit[i][4] == 1){
				if ((startY + 1) <= boardHeight){
					startY++;
					
					lastHit[i][4] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
					
					goDir = true;
				}else{
					lastHit[i][4] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
				}
			}
		}
		else if ((startY - lastHit[i-1][1]) < 0){
			System.out.println("Y - 1");
			
			if (lastHit[i][5] == 1){
				if ((startY - 1) >= 0){
					startY--;
					
					lastHit[i][5] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
					
					goDir = true;
				}else{
					lastHit[i][5] = 0;
					lastHit[i][6]--;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

[ShoeNinja]

Without knowing more of what is going on, the only thing that I can think of is that startX - lastHit[i-1][1] and startY - lastHit[i-1][1] might be equal to 0. This is a case for which you are not checking. I would add a catch-all else to your if else's just to make sure.

From what you have said before, it sounds like you have gotten it to print 'true' at some point. If that is the case, I'm not really sure what to tell you.

Another minor detail; your main if isn't necessary. It is reiterating one of your loop conditions. You might have put it in there for testing though. I have no idea.

[Lang]

I did put the main if there for testing. Also the reason I don't have an else is because either the startX or startY are going to be different, no matter what. However, I'll add it in and see what happens.

Thanks for taking a look! Ill post the result of the changes soon.

[Lang]

ShoeNinja, you were right. Those if statements evaluated to 0. I'll fix 'er up now.

Thanks for all your help.

[ShoeNinja]

Sweet man! Glad you got it figured out.