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How do I get the break command to go back to my for each loop

I know I asked a similar question like this earlier (I figured it out though)
*while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
forloop:
{ while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
for ( String a : spaces.split("\\s"))
{
count++;
int x = Integer.valueOf(a);
if (x > guess.length())
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break innerloop;
}
if (Character.toLowerCase(newWord.charAt(x)) == letterInput.charAt(0))
{
//System.out.println("Guess is correct for position " + x);
guess = guess.substring(0, x) + letterInput + guess.substring(x + 1, guess.length());
}
if (Character.toLowerCase(newWord.charAt(x)) != letterInput.charAt(0))
{
if(count < spaces.split("\\s").length - 1)
{
break forloop;
}
}
if (count == spaces.split("\\s").length)
guesses= guesses - 1;
System.out.println("Your letter was not found in spaces you provided");
System.out.println("Guesses Remaining: " + guesses);
break;
}*
but now the break command that I have at the third if statement after the for loop just takes me back to the loop towards the beginning of my whole code
*while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
innerloop:
{ while(true)
{
System.out.println("Please enter the letter you want to guess");
String letterInput = keyboard.next();
letterInput = Character.toString(letterInput.charAt(0));
if(!Character.isLetter(letterInput.charAt(0)))
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break;
}
if(letterInput.equalsIgnoreCase("solve"))
{
System.out.println("Please solve the answer:");
String userSolve = keyboard.next();
if (!userSolve.equalsIgnoreCase(newWord))
{
System.out.println("That is not the secret word");
guesses = guesses - 1;
System.out.println("Guesses remaining: " + guesses);
}
else
{
System.out.println("You win!");
System.out.println("You have guessed the word! Congratulations");
System.out.println("Would you like to play again? Yes(y) or No (n)");
response = keyboard.next();
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("n"))
{
System.exit(0);
}
if(response.equalsIgnoreCase("y"))
{
continue;
}
As you can see I placed labels on the loops I specifically want to go back to. My break is currently taking me back to my innerloop label BUT I want it to take me back to my forloop label. How exactly do I do that? I tried wrapping the for loop with while loops because thats what worked for me last time but it is not working here. Here is my whole code for reference, I apologize if its hard to read I've only started coding 2 months ago.
package e;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class HangmanBeta{
private static final boolean testingMode = true;
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
keyboard.useDelimiter("\\n");
while (true) {
System.out.println("Enter your difficulty: Easy (e), Intermediate (i), or Hard (h)");
String diff = keyboard.next();
int amountOfSpaces = 0;
String response = "";
String guess = "";
String newGuess = "";
String s = "";
int count = 0;
String newWord = "loops";//RandomWord.newWord();
int guesses = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < newWord.length(); i++) {
guess = newWord.replaceAll("[^#]", "-");
}
if ((diff.equalsIgnoreCase("e")) || (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("i")) || (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("h"))) {
if (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("e"))
{
guesses = 15;
}
if(diff.equalsIgnoreCase("i"))
{
guesses = 12;
}
if(diff.equalsIgnoreCase("h"))
{
guesses = 15;
}
if (testingMode == true)
{
System.out.println("The secret word is:" + " " + newWord);
}
System.out.println("The word is:" + " " + guess);
while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
innerloop:
{ while(true)
{
System.out.println("Please enter the letter you want to guess");
String letterInput = keyboard.next();
letterInput = Character.toString(letterInput.charAt(0));
if(!Character.isLetter(letterInput.charAt(0)))
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break;
}
if(letterInput.equalsIgnoreCase("solve"))
{
System.out.println("Please solve the answer:");
String userSolve = keyboard.next();
if (!userSolve.equalsIgnoreCase(newWord))
{
System.out.println("That is not the secret word");
guesses = guesses - 1;
System.out.println("Guesses remaining: " + guesses);
}
else
{
System.out.println("You win!");
System.out.println("You have guessed the word! Congratulations");
System.out.println("Would you like to play again? Yes(y) or No (n)");
response = keyboard.next();
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("n"))
{
System.exit(0);
}
if(response.equalsIgnoreCase("y"))
{
continue;
}
}
}
System.out.println("Please enter the spaces you want to check (seperated by spaces)");
String spaces = keyboard.next();
amountOfSpaces = spaces.length();
if (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("e"))
{
if(amountOfSpaces != 7)
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break innerloop;
}
}
if (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("i"))
{
if(amountOfSpaces != 5)
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break innerloop;
}
}
if (diff.equalsIgnoreCase("h"))
{
if(amountOfSpaces != 3)
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break innerloop;
}
{
while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
forloop:
{ while(!newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
for ( String a : spaces.split("\\s"))
{
count++;
int x = Integer.valueOf(a);
if (x > guess.length())
{
System.out.println("Your input is not valid, try again");
break innerloop;
}
if (Character.toLowerCase(newWord.charAt(x)) == letterInput.charAt(0))
{
//System.out.println("Guess is correct for position " + x);
guess = guess.substring(0, x) + letterInput + guess.substring(x + 1, guess.length());
}
if (Character.toLowerCase(newWord.charAt(x)) != letterInput.charAt(0))
{
if(count < spaces.split("\\s").length - 1)
{
break forloop;
}
if (count == spaces.split("\\s").length)
guesses= guesses - 1;
System.out.println("Your letter was not found in spaces you provided");
System.out.println("Guesses Remaining: " + guesses);
break;
}
if (guesses == 0)
{
System.out.println("You have failed to guess the word....:(");
System.out.print("Would you like to play again? Yes(y) or No(n)");
response = keyboard.next();
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("n"))
{
System.exit(0);
}
if(response.equalsIgnoreCase("y"))
{
continue;
}
} }
if (newWord.equalsIgnoreCase(guess))
{
System.out.println("You win!");
System.out.println("You have guessed the word! Congratulations");
System.out.println("Would you like to play again? Yes(y) or No (n)");
response = keyboard.next();
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("n"))
{
System.exit(0);
}
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("y"))
{
continue;
}
}
}
System.out.println("Your Guess is in the word");
}
if(guesses == guesses - 1)
{
System.out.println("Your letter was not found in spaces you provided");
System.out.println("Guesses Remaining: " + guesses);
break innerloop;
//System.out.print(spaces.split("\\s").length);
//System.out.println("Your Guess is in the word");
//System.out.println();
//System.out.println("Updated word " + guess);
//System.out.println("Guesses Remaining: " + guesses);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

... but now the break command that I have at the third if statement after the for loop just takes me back to the loop towards the beginning of my whole code.
Actually, no.
A break never takes you back. It always takes you forward. In this case it takes you forward to immediately after the block with the label that you broke. For example:
while (....) {
label: while (...) {
...
if (...) break label;
...
}
// Breaks to HERE
}
You may then go back because of something in the context you went to. But it is the context that does it, not the break.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to apply this to your example because 1) you don't explain what the code is supposed to do, 2) it is hard to figure out which of the versions you refer to, 3) the code is not compilable, and 4) the readability issues make my head hurt.
So unless you can figure out how to make your code more readable, that is all the help I can give you.

Having issues with having a program re-run

I am writing a program that will ask the user to guess a random number 6 times. The program has to ask if they want to play again and will keep a running total of the wins/losses.
How would I have the program rerun?
heres the code:
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
public class Project {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input;
double guess = 0;
int number;
double wins = 0;
double losses = 0;
String repeat;
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
Random randomNumbers = new Random();
System.out.println("Welcome to Higher/Lower!");
System.out.println("Enter your name: ");
input = keyboard.nextLine();
while(input.equalsIgnoreCase("yes")); {
number = randomNumbers.nextInt(100) + 1;
System.out.println("I've chosen my number, " + input + "You only have 6 tries, good luck!"); }
for(int num = 1; number != guess && number <= 6; num++) {
System.out.println("Enter guess " + num + ":");
guess = keyboard.nextDouble();
if(guess < number)
System.out.println("higher.");
else if(guess > number)
System.out.println("lower.");
else
System.out.println("Congratulations!"); }
if(guess == number) {
System.out.println("You guesses my number!"); wins++; }
if(guess != number) {
System.out.println("Sorry, " + input + " my number was " + number +
"You lose!"); losses++; }
System.out.println("Do you want to play again? (Yes/No): ");
repeat = keyboard.nextLine();
if(input.equalsIgnoreCase("no")); {
System.out.println("Thanks for playing!"); }
System.out.println(wins + " wins");
System.out.println(losses + " losses");
}
}
It is skipping over asking me if i want to play again or not and i dont know what kind of loop to use

Wihtout your code, I'm assuming this is what you need.
boolean doContinue = true;
do {
//guess random number 6 times
//do you want to continue?
// yes -> doContinue = true;
// no -> doContinue = false;
} while (doContinue );

I would suggest making your loop a do-while loop like this:
do {
for (int i=0; i<6; i++){
/*
insert code for the guessing/checking/etc.
*/
}
System.out.print("Would you like to continue? [Y/n] ");
} while (scan.next().toUpperCase().charAt(0) != 'Y');

How do I make a String unusable the second time in a loop?

I'm new to this site. I've decided to create a console base hangmaan game and I've been doing ok up till now. My current problem has me stuck.
I'm trying to make it so that if the user has input a letter and it has been marked as correct or incorrect. The program should then not let the user input that same letter again in later iterations of the while loop.
The comments should give you a better idea of what I'm talking about.
Can anyone please help me?
package hangMan2;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class mainClss {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int point = 0;
int numberOfLetterInWord;
// prompt user for input and store input into String word
System.out.println("Enter a word in lower case from the dictionary: ");
Scanner inputWord = new Scanner(System.in);
String word = inputWord.next();
// letters remaining in word equals the length of the word at the start
int lettersRemainingInWord = word.length();
for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
System.out.println("\b");
}
// while points are above 7 (7 is when man is hung) and there's more
// than one letter remaining do all the following:
while (point > -7 && lettersRemainingInWord >= 1) {
//prompts user to input letter guess and stores in letter
System.out.print("\nEnter a letter for this " + word.length()
+ " letter word: ");
Scanner inputLetter = new Scanner(System.in);
String letter = inputLetter.next();
if (word.contains(letter)) {
System.out.println("Correct!");
point += 1;
System.out.println("Score: " + point);
lettersRemainingInWord -= 1;
//I need code here to remove the current letter from being able to be used again
if (lettersRemainingInWord > 0) {
continue;
}
else {
System.out.println("\nYou win!!!");
System.out.println("The word was: " + word);
break;
}
}
else {
System.out.println("Incorrect\n");
point -= 1;
System.out.println("Score: " + point);
//I need code here to remove the current letter from being able to be used again
if (lettersRemainingInWord > 0) {
continue;
}
else {
System.out.println("Game over! You lose!");
System.out.println("Score: " + point);
System.out.println("The word was: " + word);
break;
}
}
}
if (point <= -7) {
System.out.println("Game over! You lose!");
System.out.println("Score: " + point);
System.out.println("The word was: " + word);
}
}
}

You could test whether the letter is in a Set. If not, accept it and add it to the set. If so, then reject it.
Set<String> usedLetters = new HashSet<String>();
boolean isUsedLetter(String letter) {
if (usedLetters.contains(letter)) {
return true;
} else {
usedLetters.add(letter);
return false;
}
}

You can use an ArrayList to hold the characters that have already been typed and then check the list to see if the character is in there.
List<Character> used = new ArrayList<Character>();
char let = //letter that they inputted
if(used.contains(let)) {
//do something
}
else {
used.add(let);
}

Java: implement a loop with duplicate values in Array

My task is to enter names into an array. If the name has already been entered, the program must alert about that and offer to reenter the player under the same number.
This is my code:
public void enterNames() {
for (int i=0; i<nameOfPlayers.length; i++)
{
do
{
// isDuplicate is a Boolean initialized to false
System.out.println("CHECK": + isDuplicate);
System.out.println("Enter player " + (i+1) + ":");
nameOfPlayers[i] = in.next();
for (int k=0; k<nameOfPlayers.length; k++)
{
if (k!=i && nameOfPlayers[i].equals(nameOfPlayers[k]))
{
isDuplicate = true;
break;
}
}
} while (isDuplicate = false);
}
}
Interesting, even when I enter a duplicate value, it is caught and assigns true to isDuplicate, but when it returns to the beginning of the while loop, the value is false again ("CHECK: false").
Looks like an easy task, but I am caught...
Also, I did not want to use HashSet and wanted to use only Array.
Thanks a lot!
EDIT:
Thanks to others, I rewrote the code to the following:
public void enterNames() {
List<String> nameOfPlayersList = new ArrayList<String>();
int i = 0;
for (i=0; i<numberOfPlayers;)
{
while(true)
{
System.out.println("Enter player " + (i+1) + ":");
String input = in.next();
if(!nameOfPlayersList.contains(input))
{
nameOfPlayersList.add(input);
i++;
break;
}
System.out.println("Player " + input + " already exists, please retry");
}
}
}

Answer reformed, used List to add more and more elements without pre defined size.
changed while (isDuplicate == false); to while (!isDuplicate);
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
List<String> nameOfPlayers = new ArrayList<String>();
boolean isDuplicate = false;
int i = 0;
do {
System.out.println("Enter player " + (i + 1) + ": or Q for Quit");
String input = scanner.next();
if (!input.equalsIgnoreCase("Q")) {
if (nameOfPlayers.contains(input)) {
isDuplicate = true;
} else {
nameOfPlayers.add(input);
isDuplicate = false;
}
System.out.println("CHECK : " + isDuplicate);
} else {
break;
}
i++;
} while (!isDuplicate);
}
Enter player 1: or Q for Quit
ankur
CHECK : false
Enter player 2: or Q for Quit
singhal
CHECK : false
Enter player 3: or Q for Quit
ankur
CHECK : true

The problem you are having is because of the
} while (isDuplicate = false);
it should be (mind the double ==)
} while (isDuplicate == false);
Apart from that your code is quite inefficient. You would probably do much better with two Arrays if that is really what you want, otherwise a linked list would be best.

Your while is incorrect, this
while (isDuplicate = false);
assigns false to isDuplicate which has a side-effect of also evaluating to false. You watned something like
while (isDuplicate == false);
or the shorter
while (!isDuplicate);

Very simple game about Guessing The Number

/hello, I am trying to learn how to use "break" commend in java as well as continuing loop with "y or n" choice. I am writing this game Guessing Number and I have some trouble with "y" choice. I will try to explain, to write a game of guessing number was easy so I started to add some conditions like the possibility on the and to play again or not, later I was thinking that would be more interesting if I add possibility to quit any time player wish, but that does not working correctly. Please help, thats my code
package guessinggame;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;
/**
*
public class Main {
/**
* #param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(" Welcome ");
Random rand = new Random();
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
boolean play_again = true;
while (play_again)
{
int number_guess = rand.nextInt(100)+1;
int number_of_tries = 0;
int guess;
String another = "y";
boolean win = false;
while (win == false)
{
System.out.println(" Try too guess a number between 1 and 100 ");
guess = input.nextInt();
number_of_tries++;
if (guess == number_guess)
{
win = true;
}
else if (guess < number_guess)
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too low " + "\n Guess another number to continue or n to quit ");
if (input.hasNext("n"))
{
play_again = false;
break;
}
}
else if (guess > number_guess)
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too high " + "\n Guess another number to continue or n to quit ");
if (input.hasNext("n"))
{
play_again = false;
break;
}
}
}
System.out.println(" You Win!!! ");
System.out.println(" The number was " + number_guess);
System.out.println(" It took you " + number_of_tries + " tries " +
"\nWould you like to play again? (y/n): ");
if (another.equalsIgnoreCase("y") == true)
play_again = true;
else
{
play_again = false;
}
}
}
}

Here is an alternative that achieves that same outcome
public class Main {
/**
* #param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(" Welcome ");
Random rand = new Random();
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
int guess = 0;
int number_of_tries = 0;
System.out.println(" Try too guess a number between 1 and 100 -1 to close");
guess = input.nextInt(); //get first input
while (guess != -1)
{
int number_guess = rand.nextInt(5) + 1;
++number_of_tries;
//check if user wins and exits loop
if (isWin (number_guess,guess))
{
System.out.println(" You Win!!! ");
System.out.println(" The number was " + number_guess);
System.out.println(" It took you " + number_of_tries + " tries " +
"\nWould you like to play again? [1 yes/ -1 no]: ");
guess = input.nextInt();
if (guess == -1)
break;
else
System.out.println(" Try too guess a number between 1 and 100 -1 to close");
}
else if (number_guess < guess )
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too High " + "\n Guess another number to continue or -1 to quit ");
guess = input.nextInt();
continue;
}
else if (number_guess > guess)
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too low " + "\n Guess another number to continue or -1 to quit ");
guess = input.nextInt();
continue;
}
}
System.out.println ("bye bye");
}
public static boolean isWin (int number,int guess)
{
return (number == guess) ? true :false;
}
}

You forgot to wait for user input after this statement:
System.out.println(" It took you " + number_of_tries + " tries " +
"\nWould you like to play again? (y/n): ");
E.g. you could try next approach:
System.out.println(" It took you " + number_of_tries + " tries " +
"\nWould you like to play again? (y/n): ");
if (input.hasNext()) {
if (another.equalsIgnoreCase("y")) {
play_again = true;
input.next();
} else {
play_again = false;
}
}

It looks like your braces are messed up for your play again if statement

This will work.
package aa;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class abc {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(" Welcome ");
Random rand = new Random();
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
boolean play_again = true;
while (play_again)
{
int number_guess = rand.nextInt(100)+1;
int number_of_tries = 0;
int guess;
String another = "y";
boolean win = false;
while (win == false)
{
System.out.println(" Try too guess a number between 1 and 100 ");
guess = input.nextInt();
number_of_tries++;
if (guess == number_guess)
{
win = true;
break;
}
else if (guess < number_guess)
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too low " + "\n Guess another number to continue or n to quit ");
if (input.hasNext("n"))
{
play_again = false;
break;
}
}
else if (guess > number_guess)
{
System.out.println(" Guess is too high " + "\n Guess another number to continue or n to quit ");
if (input.hasNext("n"))
{
play_again = false;
break;
}
}
}
input.next();
if (win == true){
System.out.println(" You Win!!! ");
}
else{
System.out.println(" Good Luck Next Time!!! ");
System.out.println(" The number was " + number_guess);
}
System.out.println(" It took you " + number_of_tries + " tries " +
"\nWould you like to play again? (y/n): ");
another = input.next();
if (another.equalsIgnoreCase("y") == true)
play_again = true;
else
{
play_again = false;
}
}
System.out.println("Thank you!!!");
}
}