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i have to write a program that gets the month and year from the user. and then i have to print the number of days in a year and display if the year is a leap year. i have the leap year part down. what would i have to do to display the number of days for the month the user chooses. and how i would make feb have that extra day if it is a leap year. hope this makes sense thank you in advance

what would i have to do to display the number of days

You could use the System.out.println() method to display the number of days on the console.

how i would make feb have that extra day if it is a leap year

Use 29 days for a leap year.

Are these really your questions?

ok my question is they enter the month. how do i convert there answer they chose, eg april, to number of days in that month. i figured out the leap year part i believe. but how would i do the month? and yes these are really my questions. i just started working in java.

What data structures and coding techniques do you know about?
The simplest way to convert a String with the name of a month to an int value for the number of days would be an if statement with a compound condition. Use one of the String class's methods to compare what the user entered to each month name. With more knowledge put the names in an array and use a loop.

i know how to use the if statements, loops, boolean type, switch statments. just baisc stuff we are about to start learning meathods. ok so baiscally i have to assign each month as the number of days. so like int jan = 31;
and use an if statment for the month of feb if it is a leap year?

There are three different groups of months when you consider the number of days in a month.
Some have 30, some have 31 and one has either 28 or 29.
Use if statements to see which group the given month is in.

oh ok that would make it way better than assigning each one as a variable. thank you. i will play around with that and see if i can get it right