Question

My “if” statement doesnt seem to be working, whatever I put in always seems to default to my “else” statement. Such as if I put in the integer “1” or “2”, which have “if” statements associated with them, it still defaults to “else”. Any help would be appreciated 🙂

String number = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Would you like a custom loop count or an infinite? 1.  Custom   2. Infinite"); //test choice
n = Integer.parseInt(number);
while (n < 0 || n > 2) {
    if (n == 1) {


        String number2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many times would you like to loop?");
        integer = Integer.parseInt(number2);
        while (integer < 0) {
            while (x < integer) {
                g.drawString("hi", 200, y);

                x += 1;
                y = y + 40; //test
            }//end while
        }
    }//end if 
    else if (n == 2) {
        while (1 == 1);
    }//end if   
    else;
}
g.drawString("Please pick a valid choice", 200, 200);

Answer 1

If the block after

while (n<0 || n>2)

is executed, you know that n is either < 0 or > 2. Therefore it can’t be equal to 1 or 2 and the else block is executed, which happens to be empty because it is followed by a ;.

That’s not mentioning the few weird statements found in your code 😉

ps: I have edited your post to add proper indentation to your code and include { and }. It might look a little clearer now.