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    <p>Time for my daily newbie Java question :-D </p> <p>I must not be understanding conditionals in a while loop correctly. </p> <p>I have this:</p> <pre><code>while (true){ if (){ ... } else { ... } if (){ ... } else { ... } if (SENTINEL){ break; } } </code></pre> <p>The first if/else statement is working, and the sentinel is working, but the second if statement gets skipped. If I flip the first and second if statement, then the first if statement still always gets executed and skips the second. What am I missing?</p> <p>Can I have two if/else statements in one block like this?</p> <p>I'll include the whole code, though it's pretty ugly, and I'm sure I'll get lots of people telling me better ways of doing this. I don't mind learning better ways, but for now, I just want an answer to this looping question. thanks!</p> <pre><code>public class FindRange extends ConsoleProgram { private static final int SENTINEL = 0; int value = 0; int highNumber = 0; int latestValue = 0; int lowNumber = 0; public void run() { addNumbers(); } private void addNumbers(){ value = readInt("Enter number:"); while(true){ if (value == SENTINEL){ break; } latestValue = readInt("Enter number:"); getHighNumber(); getLowNumber(); if (latestValue == SENTINEL){ break; } } println("High Number is "+highNumber+"."); println("Low Number is "+lowNumber+"."); } private void getHighNumber(){ if (latestValue &gt;= value){ highNumber = latestValue; }else { highNumber = value; } } private void getLowNumber(){ if (latestValue &lt;= value){ lowNumber = latestValue; }else { lowNumber = value; } } } </code></pre>
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    1. COYou should post your actual code; clearly this code is retyped. As it is, it doesn't look like it is wrong. The second if should be evaluated.
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    2. COWe are going to need the code in the if statement, and the condition code, because without it we can't help.
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    3. COThere is something you're not showing us here. Please post your *actual* code. This is not enough. BTW: You forgot the semi-colon after `break`.
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