Re-writing program with break/continue

Hello all.

My Java isnt that great, I was just wondering if anybody could give me a bit of help. Basically I got given a program that has break and continue statements in it, and I re-write it so it works without them

Code Given
import java.util.*;

public class BreakContinue {
public static void main(String args[]) {
int Number;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

while (true) // seemingly an infinite loop
{
System.out.print("Enter a positive integer ");
System.out.println("or 0 to exit ");
Number = sc.nextInt();
if (Number == 0)
break;
if (Number < 0)
continue;
System.out.print("Squareroot of " + Number);
System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));
//continue lands here at end of current iteration
}
//break lands here
System.out.println("a zero was entered");
}
}

So far I have tried doing

My Code

import java.util.*;

public class BreakContinue {
public static void main(String args[]) {
int Number=0;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");
Number = sc.nextInt();
while (Number < 0) // seemingly an infinite loop
{
if (Number <0 ){

System.out.println("Squareroot of " + Number);
System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));
}
else if (Number == 0)
{
System.out.println("a zero was entered");
}
}
}
}


When you enter in a number it is meant to calculate the squareroot of it, but if you typed in 0 then the program terminates.

Whenever I type in a number it just asks me to enter in another number, if anybody could help it would be appreciated!

Thanks

May I add the title is meant to be "without" not "with".

Hello and welcome! Please use [code][/code] tags when posting code for easy reading.

Are you doing this for an assignment? Because break and continue are perfectly valid ways of working with while loops (in fact, its the way I use while loops 90% of the time since they usually involve user input or file reading).

Another way you can do it is by nesting the reading of user input into the while loop itself, like this pseudocode:

Code:

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int input
while((input equals userInput) not equal to 0){
    do something with input
}

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Does that make sense?

Ah okay i do apologise.

Well its a task thats been set, that we have to re-write it so that it isnt using neither the break/continue statements.

I've just edited the while so that

Code:

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while (Number > 0)
{
if (Number > 0)

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It will calculate the square root of the number entered but the loop doesn't stop, it just keeps repeating "the square root is:" rather then ask for another number or pressing 0 to terminate.

I still havent really got the hang of using loops so it doesnt make much sense to me.

Did you look at the example of an assignment inside a conditional that I provided?

I don't understand how to apply it to my program.

Try with while(Number!=0) ;)

When I use that it does the same as when while(Number > 0) which just gives an infinite amount of square root lines.
I'm guessing i'm not terminating the loop properly.

Code:

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import java.util.*;

public class BreakContinue {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                int Number=0;
                Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
               
                System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");
                Number = sc.nextInt();
                while (Number!=0)
                {       
                        System.out.println("Squareroot of " + Number);
                        System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));
                }
                System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");
               
                if (Number==0)
                {
                        System.out.println("a zero was entered");
                }
               
                        }
                }

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I don't know if its something quite obvious that i'm doing wrong?

I think you have to put this code inside while loop.

Code:

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    System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");
    Number = sc.nextInt();

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Code:

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public class BreakContinue
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        //int Number=0;
        [b]int Number=-1;[/b]//Declare it -1 so it will not exit

        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        while (Number!=0)
        {
            System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");
            Number = sc.nextInt();
            System.out.println("Squareroot of " + Number);
            System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));
        }
        System.out.println("Enter a positive integer or 0 to exit");

        if (Number==0)
        {
                System.out.println("a zero was entered");
        }
    }
}

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OR at least change Number value because if the user did not enter ZERO(0) it will go inside while loop
and inside while loop Number is not changing which means it will never be zero and your while loop will never exit.

Thanks. That has fixed the problem! When 0 is entered the program would try calculating the square root of 0 and then terminate, not sure if there was a more simplier way of preventing it calculating the square root of 0 but i've just put an if (Number > 0) statement before the Print Lines so therefore it doesnt show it.


Thanks for all the help :)

put if statement before

Code:

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    System.out.println("Squareroot of " + Number);
    System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));

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Code:

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    //Put if statement here. If number is not equal to zero
    System.out.println("Squareroot of " + Number);
    System.out.println(" = " + Math.sqrt(Number));

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