Thread: Infinite Looping problem

Its a basic program that is played by 2 people. Player one is suppose to type a number and the second player is suppose to guess the number. However after I test it out, and if I guess too low or too high I get stuck in "Your guess is too low, try again." infinite loop and I have no idea what is wrong.

import java.io.*;
 
class GuessingGame
         {
            public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
               {
                  BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (System.in));
                  String firstPlayer, secondPlayer;
                  int firstInput, secondInput;
                  int guessCount = 0;
 
                  System.out.println("Player One, please input any integer lower than 1000");
                  firstPlayer = stdin.readLine ();
                  firstInput = Integer.parseInt (firstPlayer);
 
                  System.out.println("Player Two, please guess the number");
                  secondPlayer = stdin.readLine ();
                  secondInput = Integer.parseInt (secondPlayer);
 
                  {
 
                     while (secondInput < firstInput)
                        {
                           System.out.println("Your guess was too low, try again.");
                           guessCount ++;
                        }
                  }
 
 
                  {
                     while (secondInput > firstInput)
                        {
                           System.out.println("Your guess was too high, try again.");
                           guessCount ++;
 
                        }
                  }
 
 
 
                  if (secondInput == firstInput)
                     {
                        System.out.println("You have guessed the correct number, the correct number was: " + firstInput);
                        guessCount ++;
                        System.out.println("Your total guess was: "+ guessCount);
 
                     }
 
              }
 
   }

Please help!

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but if I use "if" it doesn't ask back for another guess even though its wrong.

I am really sorry for being really hard to deal with, but I quite don't understand what you mean. I am really confused to whether once the guess is wrong, can it go back to the "guessing" line again or will it just keep being stuck at its "while" infinite loop?

Ok, so last question is there a command for end loop? or is is just use of squiggly brackets?

ok, thanks a lot for helping me. I kinda get what I need to do now thanks to you