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    Default Help please!!!

    Hello guys,
    I am taking a summer java 1 course and I have no idea how to do one of the parts of my first project for the course. The assignment is to create a program that determines if a 5 digit number is a palindrome. I am not sure how to create a code that keeps asking the user to reenter a 5 digit number if they entered the wrong number. I am assuming that somehow I have to include a while loop in the code. I was testing the loop for one of the conditions and I was unable to have the loop ask the user for a new number. I could not find any information online on this specific problem. This is what I came up with. Thank you very much for the help.

    ( I tried using smaller numbers to test it)

     
    mport java.util.Scanner;
     
     
    public class Pelindrone {
     
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
    		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
    		Scanner input= new Scanner ( System.in);
    int num;
    System.out.println( "Please enter five digit number");
    num = input.nextInt();
    while (10 < num )  { System.out.println(" Enter new number number");}
     
    	}
     
    }

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    Default Re: Help please!!!

    code that keeps asking the user to reenter a 5 digit number if they entered the wrong number.
    That can be done with a while() loop. Inside the loop: ask the question, get the response, exit the loop if the response is good, otherwise output a message and loop back to ask the question again.
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    Default Re: Help please!!!

    Welcome to the forum! Thanks for taking the time to learn how to post code correctly. If you haven't already, please read this topic to learn other useful info for new members.

    Please give your threads better titles. Moving to Loops and Control Statements.

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    Thank you very much for your response. How would I go about doing this?

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    Write the code as I suggested in post#2:
    while() loop
    ask the question,
    get the response,
    exit the loop if the response is good,
    otherwise output a message and loop back to ask the question again.
    end loop
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    ok thank you once again. This is what I come up with:
     
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
     
    public class Pelindrone {
     
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
    		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
    		Scanner input= new Scanner ( System.in);
    int num;
    System.out.println(" Enter 2 digit number");
    num = input.nextInt();
    while ( num <= 10) { System.out.println("Enter 2 digit number");
    				num=input.nextInt();
    while (num>99) { System.out.println("Enter 2 digit number");
    				num=input.nextInt();
    }
    }
    }
     
    	}

    for some reason it does not want to work. any ideas?

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    Please edit the post and fix the formatting of the code so it is readable.
    Logically nested statements within {}s should be indented.
    There should not be one } above another }.
    There should not be any code after a {

    it does not want to work
    Please explain. Copy any output here that shows what you are talking about.

    I see two while() statements. Why are there two?

    Did you see post#5 where I tried to show you the logic? It used ONE while() statement.
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    Ok thanks a lot and sorry about the format. I was able to make it work by indenting the while loops.

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    I was able to make it work by indenting the while loops.
    That is very unusual. The formatting doesn't make code work. Code is formatted so humans can read and understand it more easily. Computers don't care.
    It's the logic that make programs work.
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