java code help

[insane]

I need help on a subtle problem in my java code. I writing a program for college admissions and I have all the computations figured out but I want to prompt the user to say

inforamtion for applicant #1:

<code>

information for applicant #2:

<code>

etc

the only thing changing is the number. I know i can loop it like this:

for (int i = 1; i <= 2; i++) {
System.out.println("Information for applicant #" + i + ":");
}

but that will run my computations in my code twice for each person. How can i have it where I'm not redundant but still be able to differentiate the number value?

 

[amromousa]

Have the user enter the number of applicants they want to enter data for and use that in place of the "2" you put in your for-loop. There are other ways, of course. E.g. you could use a while loop and have it stop when the data entered by the user is an empty string, etc.

 

[S3th13]

Use a counter instead of looping through the entire question again. You could do what amromousa suggested above and prompt the user for a # of applications or you could just start a counter at 1 and every time the user moves to the next application the counter variable increase by 1.