Thread: Help with a "switch" statement

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Java (less than a week into it), but I'm needing helping displaying a method using a switch statement.

Per the code below, how do I get the program to show the menu, then once the user selects the option (only the "1" at this point), how do I get the code to output the "showIf" method?

Please let me know if I need to clarify in any way. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.

import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Help {
	private Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 
	public int showMenu() {
                System.out.println("Help on:");
                System.out.println("  1. if");
		System.out.println("  0. Exit Program");
		System.out.println("");
		System.out.println("enter the option:");
		return input.nextInt();
	}
 
	public void showIf() {
                System.out.println("if:");
                System.out.println("if(condition) {");
                System.out.println("\tstatement(s);");
                System.out.println("}");
                System.out.println("The if statement executes one or more statements");
                System.out.println("only if the condition evaluates to true");
	}
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Help needhelp = new Help();
 
		do{
			int option = needhelp.showMenu();
			s result = 0;
 
			switch (option) {
				case 0: System.out.println("Bye bye...");
					System.exit(0);
					break;
				case 1: result = needhelp.showIf();
					break;		
 
				default:
					System.out.println("invalid option");
					break;
				}
 
			System.out.println(result);				
 
		} while (true);
	}
}

what error or exception u are getting??
please let us know..

Hi,

case 1: result = needhelp.showIf();
         break;

" showIf()" method returns nothing then why you assigned to variable "result".

Explain clearly what problem u r facing in the above program. What is your expectation. Happy to help u.

thanks,

Hello,

Basically, I'd like the code to display the menu (showMenu method). From there, expectation is for the user to either choose an option from said menu. As of right now, I only have one option, "1".

When option "1" is selected by a user, using the switch statement, the methods should display the content created within the "showIf" method, then prompt the user to hit the space-bar to re-display the menu.

Essentially, I'm going to be building a Help menu that defines and provides an example of specific conditions. As of right now, I'm only trying to get it to work with one condition help option, "if".



@Praful - at this point, I'm getting lots of errors, as I'm sure I'm screwing up in different areas. to @Ganeprog's point around my assigning the "showif()" method to a variable, it's returning nothing. I figured that was wrong, but I do not know how to correct.

Like I said, I'm very knew to this and would appreciate any help you could provide.

Looking forward to hearing back! Take care.

Hi Sambit,

Do I really need the variable "result" in this case?

I'm looking to accept user input using the Java Scanner. Based on said input, in this case it's "0" to terminate the loop or "1" to output the lines within the showIf() method. I'm not quite sure how to do it.

I am using Notepad++, and am positive I'm importing all required java packages.

Thanks for your help!

@skakels, Welcome to the Forum! Thanks for taking the time to learn to post code correctly, and if you haven't already, please read this topic to see other useful info for newcomers.

@Sambit - Thanks for the feedback. I removed the variable (updated code below).

That said, it compiled and executed!!! w00t!

I'm not going to have time to revist until tonight, so I MIGHT have a follow-up question or two. You definitely helped me past one, LARGE hurdle.

Thank you!

import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Help {
	private Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 
	public int showMenu() {
        System.out.println("Help on:");
        System.out.println("  1. if");
		System.out.println("  0. Exit Program");
		System.out.println("");
		System.out.println("enter the option:");
		return input.nextInt();
	}
 
	public void showIf() {
        System.out.println("if:");
        System.out.println("if(condition) {");
        System.out.println("\tstatement(s);");
        System.out.println("}");
        System.out.println("The if statement executes one or more statements");
        System.out.println("only if the condition evaluates to true");
	}
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Help needhelp = new Help();
 
		do{
			int option = needhelp.showMenu();
 
			switch (option) {
				case 0: System.out.println("Bye bye...");
					System.exit(0);
					break;
				case 1: needhelp.showIf();
					break;		
 
				default:
					System.out.println("invalid option");
					break;
				}
 
			System.out.println(needhelp);				
 
		} while (true);
	}
}