Question

while (goodInput=false)
        {
            try
            {
                System.out.println("How long is the word you would like to guess?");
                wordSize=scan.nextInt();
                while(wordSize>word.longestWord())
                {
                    System.out.println("There are no words that big! Please enter another number");
                    wordSize=scan.nextInt();
                }
                goodInput=true;
            }
            catch(InputMismatchException ime)
            {
                System.out.println("Thats not a number! Try again");
            }

        }

I am trying to prompt a user for a number but i cant get it to run correctly. I want it to keep running until the correct input is entered.

Answer 1

One issue is:

while (goodInput=false)

Assigns false to goodInput which becomes while(false) that leads to loop being not executed at all

change it to

while (!goodInput)