Thread: a problem with a code... (for loop and an "if" nested..)

the purpose of the code is to ask the user to input a string.
if there is an "a" in it - the place of it in the string will be shown. if not - there will be a line "no a in the string".

the problem is that i wrote the sentence "no a in the string" in the loop, and therefore it appears a few times and not only once....

how can i write it out of the loop? put the loop in another condition?
here's the code:


import java.util.Scanner;

public class Tirgul {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println ("enter a string");
String str = s.nextLine();
int i = str.length();
int b;


for (b=0; i > b;++b) {
if (str.charAt(b) == 'a')
System.out.println ("a is in the " + (b+1) + " place");

else

System.out.println ("no a in the string");
}
}
}

Set a boolean to false before the loop. Set the boolean to true inside the loop. After the loop, only do the printing if the boolean is true.

You also might want to check out the String API. A lot of this work has been done for you already.

Originally Posted by kobi1988

ummmm....
can you give me an example to simplify it...?
i began studying this just yesterday... :/

What have you tried? What about my explanation did you not understand?