Thread: Need help with this nested loop

This is a piece of code from a project I'm working on that prompts the user to pick a number of students between 1 and 10, and a score between 1 and 100 for each of the n number of students. If the user inputs a number of students or a score that is out of the range, an error message pops up and they will be prompted to input this/these bad value(s) again.

Picking the number of students is simple enough, and the code here works perfectly fine, mostly because it doesn't involve a loop to check the value (only 1 int).

The "scores" portion of the code (beginning with scores = new double[]) must have a boolean named errFlag that controls the while loop, an inner for loop, and if/else if statements. This code works as well, but the inner "for" loop causes the error in the "else if" statement:

System.out.println("ERROR: Enter number(s) in the range of 0-100!");
System.out.println("ERROR: Enter all " + (numStudents) + " scores again: ");

to print as many times as numStudents (ie 2 students inputted, error lines print twice). I only want this error to print once if any of the values inputted are out of bounds (1-100). Is there any way I can control the loop to only print this error out once no matter how many times the loop executes?

boolean errFlag = false;
final int MIN = 0;
final int MAX = 100;
final int MAX_STUDENTS = 10;
 
do{
 //prompt user for number of students between 1 and 10
 System.out.print("Enter number of students(");
 System.out.println((MIN + 1) + "-" + (MAX_STUDENTS + "): "));
 numStudents = scan.nextInt();
 //keep prompting user for number of students until they pick one between 1 and 10
if(numStudents > MAX_STUDENTS)
 {
   do {
     System.out.println("Error: Enter an integer in the range of 1-10!");
     System.out.print("Enter number of students(");
     System.out.println((MIN + 1) + "-" + (MAX_STUDENTS + "): "));
     numStudents = scan.nextInt();
   }while(numStudents > MAX_STUDENTS);
 }
 
//prompt the user for scores for each of these students until all five are between 1 and 100
   scores = new double[numStudents];
   System.out.print("Enter " + (numStudents) + " scores(");
   System.out.println((MIN) + "-" + (MAX + "): "));
   while(errFlag = false);
   {
     for(int i = 0; i < numStudents; i++)
         {
       tmp = scan.nextDouble();
       if(tmp >= MIN && tmp <= MAX)
       {
         scores[i] = tmp;
         errFlag = true;
       }
       else if(tmp < MIN || tmp > MAX)
       {
         System.out.println("ERROR: Enter number(s) in the range of 0-100!");
         System.out.println("ERROR: Enter all " + (numStudents) + " scores again: ");
         i--;
         errFlag = false;
       }
     }
   }

Sorry for the late response Norm, this did in fact fix the issue I had, and I thank you!