Thread: Help please!

thank you, it was compiling but then giving me an error in the command line when I ran it, that was it and and I will need to work out the math

I have changed the code and it worked in that version, however, my classmate told me that was not the correct output so I am trying to use string format and for some reason it will compile and take input but not display the table in the command line.

 
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
      public class Invest{
            public static void main(String[] args){
      Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 
	 double principal = 0;
	 double rate = 0;
	 int years = 0;
	 double total = 0;
	 int yearCount = 1;
	 double gain = 0;
 
	 System.out.println ("Enter your initial investment amount: ");
	  principal = reader.nextDouble();
 
 
     System.out.println ("Enter the number of years: ");
	 years = reader.nextInt();
 
 
	 System.out.println ("Enter the interst rate: ");
	 rate = reader.nextDouble();
 
     years = reader.nextInt();
     System.out.printf("%4s%8s%10s%12s%n", "Years", "Principal", "Total", "Gain" );
     while (yearCount <= years)
     {
		 gain = principal * (1 + rate / 400);
		 total = principal + gain;
		 System.out.printf("%4d%8f%10f%12f%n",years, principal, total, gain);
	   total= (rate*years)*principal;
	   yearCount++;
	   }
	   {
	   	     System.out.print("your total investment is:" + total);
   }
   }
}

1. Why are you taking years as input twice?
2. There are some problems with your formatting size and type.
3. You must look it more carefully.

The 2nd years was commented out and I forgot to delete it before I pasted the code, but I changed the format and am now getting a display thanks!