Thread: Nested If Else Statement

I have an assignment that says to write a program that asks the user to enter the day of week. Using nested if...else statements, display output that tells the user about an activity on that particular day this is what I have(keep in mind i'm a rookie):

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
public class Activity
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
 
	{
 
 
 
 
String , dayofWeek = ,outputMessageOne,outputMessageTwo,outputMessageThree,
 
outputMessageFour,outputMessageFive,outputMessageSix,outputMessageSeven,Sunday;
 
 
 
dayofWeek	= JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter day of week" );
 
 
	if (dayofWeek == Sunday) {
 
 
 
 
 
		outputMessageOne = "Today there is nothing going on";
 
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null,outputMessageOne );
 
	}else if (dayofWeek == "Monday") {
 
 
			outputMessageTwo = "Monday Night Football will be on tonight";
 
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,outputMessageTwo);
 
 
 
 
 
}else if (dayofWeek == "Tuesday") {
 
				outputMessageThree = "Black and White Party tonight at Club Heat";
 
 
 
				JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageThree);
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
		}else if (dayofWeek == "Wednesday") {
 
					outputMessageFour = "Softball game at Lions Park";
 
 
 
					JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageFour);
 
 
 
 
 
 
			}else if (dayofWeek == "Thursday") {
 
 
 
outputMessageFive = "College Football will be on ESPN tonight";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageFive);
 
 
					}else if (dayofWeek =="Friday") {
 
 
 
outputMessageSix = " Party at Venturas Longue ";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,outputMessageSix);
 
 
				}else if (dayofWeek == "Saturday") {
 
 
 
outputMessageSeven = "Baseball game at Wolf's Park";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageSeven);
 
 
 
}else
 
 
 
  outputMessageEight = "Your seeing this message because you foolishly misspelled a word or did something wrong";
 
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageEight);
 
 
 
}
 
}

I get an error that says outputMessageEight might not have been initialized

Another note when I add a brace after the last else, the program compiles without error but when it runs it just ask the asker for the day of the week and automatically displays outputMessageEight.


What am I doing wrong? Can somebody help me out. I would greatly appreciate it.

First off, please fix your post with the directions in my signature.

I get an error that says outputMessageEight might not have been initialized

Let me ask you a question: Where did you declare outputMessageEight? You are receiving this error because you are attempting to use outputMessageEight, but you have not initialized it in ALL SITUATIONS. You have initialized it one situation, your else statement. But you have not initialized it in every other situation. Since you are attempting to use it outside of your if/else statement, it needs to be initialized in all situations.

Tell me if that makes sense.

since your last else statement isnt an if-else statement the statement will always run if the day is not Saturday.ALSO you are comparing strings with == you're actually supposed to use stringName.equals(string); to compare.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
 
 
public class Activity
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
 
    {
 
 
 
 
String  dayofWeek  ,outputMessageOne,outputMessageTwo,outputMessageThree,
 
outputMessageFour,outputMessageFive,outputMessageSix,outputMessageSeven,outputMessageEight;
 
 
 
dayofWeek    = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter day of week" );
 
  if ("sundaymondaytuesdaywednesdaythursdayfridaysaturday".contains(dayofWeek.toLowerCase())) { //checks to see if the string entered is valid
 
    if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("sunday")) {
 
 
 
 
 
        outputMessageOne = "Today there is nothing going on";
 
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null,outputMessageOne );
 
 
 
    }else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("monday")) {
 
 
            outputMessageTwo = "Monday Night Football will be on tonight";
 
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,outputMessageTwo);
 
 
 
 
 
}else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("tuesday")) {
 
                outputMessageThree = "Black and White Party tonight at Club Heat";
 
 
 
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageThree);
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        }else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("wednesday")) {
 
                    outputMessageFour = "Softball game at Lions Park";
 
 
 
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageFour);
 
 
 
 
 
 
            }else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("thursday")) {
 
 
 
outputMessageFive = "College Football will be on ESPN tonight";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageFive);
 
 
                    }else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("friday")) {
 
 
 
outputMessageSix = " Party at Venturas Longue ";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,outputMessageSix);
 
 
                }else if (dayofWeek.equalsIgnoreCase("saturday")) {
 
 
 
outputMessageSeven = "Baseball game at Wolf's Park";
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageSeven);
 
 
 
   }
}
else {
 
outputMessageEight = "";
 
  outputMessageEight = "Your seeing this message because you foolishly misspelled a word or did something";
 
 
 
 
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outputMessageEight);
 
 
 
}
}
}

Works perfectly. *shines nails on T-shirt*