Re: While loops

From:
GArlington <garlington@tiscali.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:41:21 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<0770b317-5c9f-4df7-9d42-61a578b28a8f@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 6, 2:00 pm, KyoGaSuki <jrockgadaisukida...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

First of all, I can confidently say that me and loops (of ANY kind)
don't go well together. The program I am working on keeps giving me
errors (and when I fix them, there is yet ANOTHER error waiting for
me....maybe Java just isn't my forte). I was to make a program that
would data from a file and then output (into a new file): month count,
starting balance, interest (6% annual), amount deposited, and then
ending balance. It could be that it is 9 am and I am not thinking
straight, but here is my code (don't laugh at me T.T):

/**
 * @(#)Try2.java
 *
 * Try2 application
 *
 * @author
 * @version 1.00 2008/3/6
 */
 import java.util.*;
 import java.io.*;
public class Try2 {

    public static void main(String[] args)throws FileNotFoundException
{
        Scanner in = new Scanner (new FileReader("Annuities.txt"));
        float n = in.nextFloat();
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter("Try2.txt");
        int count;
        float sbal;
        float interest = (sbal*.06)/12;
        float deposit = 200.00;
        float ebal = sbal + interest + deposit;
        while(in.hasNext()){
                count = 1;
                System.out.println(count + " " + sbal + " " + interest + " " +
deposit + " " + ebal);
                count++;
        }
        in.close();
        out.close();
    }

}

RESULTS:

--------------------Configuration: Try2 - JDK version 1.6.0_03
<Default> - <Default>--------------------
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Try2
Exception in thread "main"
Process completed.

I KNOW that the input file is there and in the right spot...is it not
finding it?


1) http://mindprod.com/jgloss/runerrormessages.html#NOCLASSDEFFOUNDERROR
2) You are NOT reading next value inside your loop, so you are either
going to have a LOT of System.out.println() with the same value (until
you kill the process), or you will have none (if the file is empty)...
You will need to do something like in.next(); and add some processing
inside the loop...

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