Please show an example of a String in a while loop.

[LoViNgHeArTy]

Would someone show me an example of a string in a while loop please? I have no idea how so I can't show you what I really meant but this is what I actually wanted to do.

Basically what I wanted was while a user input (which is a name) is not equal to a string. So if someone enter a integer or a number, it prints out "Please enter a name. If the user enter a string, the program continues. I'm terribly sorry if I did not really explain well.

Thank You.

[Junky]

Would someone show me an example of a string in a while loop please?

Sure, no problems

int count = 0;
while(count < 5) {
    System.out.println("hello");
    count++;
}

Basically what I wanted was while a user input (which is a name) is not equal to a string. So if someone enter a integer or a number, it prints out "Please enter a name. If the user enter a string, the program continues. I'm terribly sorry if I did not really explain well.

Thank You.

Ahhh! more details.

declare boolean
while boolean is true {
    get user input
    if input is invalid {
        boolean is false
    }
}

That is a general idea of what to do. Now all you need to do is flesh it out.

[sunde887]

When you get user input it's always a string.

The best way to approach this would be to get some input and try to parse it.

get input
try{
  Integer.parseInt(input)
} catch(NumberFormatException nfe){
  //continue with the program
}
otherwise ask for input again

The parse int method will throw the exception when it tries parsing something that isn't a string representation of an integer, if this happens you know that a non integer was entered and you can break out of the loop. You can repeat this process in the loop until the exception is caught and thrown.

There may be other approaches, but they may take more logic.

You can create a method called

public static boolean isWord(String s)

which loops through each character and tests if they are letters. Check the character API to see if there is a good method for this.

[LoViNgHeArTy]

Thanks. I'll try my best to digest it. I'll get back if I face any problems.