Array Problem

Any suggestions on how to do this? I have a menu:

E - enter person
S - show person
X - exit

Enter Choice: e
Name: John
Age: 20
Sex: M

1. John 20 Male

Enter Choice: e
Name: May
Age: 20
Sex: F

2. May 20 Female

Enter Choice: s
You entered:
1. John 20 Male
2. May 20 Female

Enter Choice: x

I tried it and I used for loop for entering the name but my problem is whenever I asks the name age and sex, it will asks me again to enter the name age and sex without asking me the choice.

example:

Enter Choice: e
Name: May
Age: 20
Sex: F
Name: May
Age: 20
Sex: F
This happens until the array fills up. Any suggestions
Thanks

Sounds like your program layout is not quite right.
It should be like this

Code:

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Display menu
  if choice is add person, call add person method
    return to menu
  if choice is show person, call show person method
    return to menu

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Notice that this means that your add person and display person codes should be in their own separate methods. Also make a separate method for displayMenu.

Ah ok, thanks. Ill try that.
What if I dont need to go to the menu after entering a person, instead I would ask the user to input what action he/she wants. So that I don't need to show the menu al over again (I can show it when the user requests it).

Example

Enter action (? show actions): ?

N new person
S show people
? show menu
X exit

Enter action (? show menu):n
name: John
age: 20
sex: m

Enter action (? show menu):n
name: May
age: 20
sex: f

Enter action(? show menu):?

N new person
S show people
? show menu
X exit

Enter action(? show menu):s
You entered:
1. John 20 Male
2. May 20 Female

Enter action(? show menu):x

Is this possible using for loop, because when I tried it, it continously asked me about the name age sex, and after the loop is filled, then asks me to "Enter action (? show menu)" - it should asks me this everytime like in the example.

Thanks

what about switch - case ?
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tu...ts/switch.html

You can use a while loop as well.

While condition should remain true, until user enters x or chooses to see menu.

if user chose to see menu then call the method again just after while loop.

am still beginner as you ,so i take the users questions here and i try to solve them by myself to improve my skills ,
.. so sorry i did not complete it , am still have to complete the ArrayList with three
parameter(name,Gender,age) which i think you can do it by yourself .. and the case to exist , i could not figure it out.
so you can take my work (Maybe) it will help you.

Code:

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  public static void main(String args[]) {
    java.util.ArrayList<String> People = new java.util.ArrayList<String>();
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Please Enter E to Enter new person or to Show a person or X to exist");

    String input = input.nextLine();
    char m = input.charAt(0);
     

    switch (m) {
      case 'E' :People.add("Mohammed");
      break;

      case 'S':
      System.out.println(People);
      break;

      case 'X':
      System.out.println("");
      break;

    }
   
    }

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OK thanks Ill try using while