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Thread: while loop wont exit

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    Default while loop wont exit

    when I run the program the while loop never stops and i thought i had it right cause my while loop it says while(bookTitle!="done") this means while bookTitle is not equal to done than execute. but when i type in done it still goes into the loop. can someone tell me what i am doing wrong? Please



    // BookSales.java - This program calculates the total of daily

    sales for a bookstore.
    // Input: Book title and book transaction amount.
    // Output: Prints the total of your book sales.

    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

    public class BookSales
    {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
    String bookTitle=""; // Title of book.
    String stringAmount;
    double bookAmount;
    double sum = 0;

    bookTitle = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter title of book or

    the word done to quit.");


    while(bookTitle!="done"){

    stringAmount = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter price of book");

    bookAmount = Double.parseDouble(stringAmount);

    sum+=bookAmount;

    bookTitle = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter title of book or

    the word done to quit.");
    }

    System.out.println("Sum of daily book sales is $:

    " + sum);

    System.exit(0);
    } // End of main() method.

    } // End of BookSales class.


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    Default Re: while loop wont exit

    try:

    while (!bookTitle.equalsIgnoreCase("done"))

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    Default Re: while loop wont exit

    Do not use operators like == or != to compare Strings, use String's equals() method is the correct way.

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    Last edited by hns1984; January 11th, 2012 at 06:53 PM.

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