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javawhile-loop
Sentient
Sentient

Reputation: 851

Why is my Java program skipping a 'while' loop?

I'm currently having an issue where a 'while' loop is not executing. I set the loop condition to be true if an input text file has a next line. However, when I executed my program, the loop did not run. I confirmed this by adding a 'System.out.println(text)', and as I suspected, there was no text that resulted.

What issue is causing the loop to not execute?

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class BottleCapPrize
{
public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
{
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(new File("guess.txt"));
    Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new File("guess.txt"));
    Random rand = new Random();

    System.out.print("Enter number of trials: ");
    int trials = in.nextInt();

    int guess = 0;
    int totalGuess = 0;

    for (int trial = 0; trial < trials; ++trial)
    {
        guess = 0;

        int winCap = rand.nextInt(5) + 1;
        int guessCap = rand.nextInt(5) + 1;

        ++guess;
        while (guessCap != winCap)
        {
            guessCap = rand.nextInt(5) + 1;
            ++guess;
        }

        outFile.println(guess);
    }

    while (inFile.hasNextLine())
    {
        String number = inFile.nextLine();
        guess = Integer.parseInt(number);
        totalGuess += guess;

        System.out.println("This should print if while loop conditions set to true.");
    }

    double average = (double)totalGuess / trials;

    System.out.println(totalGuess + " " + guess);
    System.out.println("On average, it took " + average + " bottles to win.");
    System.out.println();

    inFile.close();
    outFile.close();

}
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (2)

Mustafa
Mustafa

Reputation: 161

Make sure to flush the contents to guess.txt file after you use outFile.println(guess) by doing outFile.flush().

Upvotes: 3

Pasha Skender
Pasha Skender

Reputation: 417

The first step is to verify that your outer loop, the for loop is actually running as well. if trials happens to be 0 then your for loop will never run either, and you will never reach the while loop itself.

Upvotes: 0

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