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Hello can someone please tell me why my compiler is saying that the break is outside of the loop?

public static String editItemNumber()
{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter Item Number: ");
String item = input.nextLine();
int itemlength= item.length();
do
{
}
while (itemlength!=5);
{
System.out.print("**ERROR1** - Item Number must be five characters ");

if(itemlength!= 5)break;
}
}
}

Why is this needed?

Code:

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if(itemlength!= 5)break

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When this loop continues when itemlength!=5:

Code:

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do
{
}
while (itemlength!=5);

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Try something like this instead:

Code:

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public static String editItemNumber()
{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
String item;
int itemlength;
System.out.println("Enter Item Number: ");
do
{
item = input.nextLine();
itemlength= item.length();
if (itemlength!=5) System.out.print("**ERROR1** - Item Number must be five characters ");
}
while (itemlength!=5);
}
}

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Do you want it to repeat until the string input is 5 characters long? If so i believe the above code should do the trick.

Hope this helps,

Regards Serb.