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Brandon Wash
Courses Plus Student 1,186 PointsHow to print out the punchline
How to printout the punchline?
/* So the age old knock knock joke goes like this:
Person A: Knock Knock.
Person B: Who's there?
Person A: Banana
Person B: Banana who?
...This repeats until Person A answers Orange
Person A: Orange
Person B: Orange who?
Person A: Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?
*/
//Here is the prompting code
String who;
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
3 Answers
Mikael Enarsson
7,056 PointsPut the last console.printf() after the do-while loop ^^
You have to move a couple of things from inside the loop to before the loop too, just so you know ~.^
Brandon Wash
Courses Plus Student 1,186 PointsThank you . This is very confusing but practice is key importance
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsIf you find that someone has a best answer to your question, it is always appreciated for that person to be chosen. Thanks Brandon Wash!
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsWell, you just want to utilize the value of who in the punchline after the code has broken out of the do-while statement. That means all you have to do is continue utilizing the %s placeholder and the who variable along with the punchline script. Add the following 3 lines to the end of the do-while block:
console.printf("%s\n", who);
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
console.printf("%s you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);
Which will now look like this:
/* So the age old knock knock joke goes like this:
Person A: Knock Knock.
Person B: Who's there?
Person A: Banana
Person B: Banana who?
...This repeats until Person A answers Orange
Person A: Orange
Person B: Orange who?
Person A: Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?
*/
//Here is the prompting code
String who;
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
//Person A has no longer entered banana as their answer
//Now it executes this code (the final punchline)
console.printf("%s\n", who);
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
console.printf("%s you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);