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> The difficulty I'm having is that if
> someone enters a negative number, I want the program to reply something
> like "Does not accept negative numbers!" then stop. I tried using
> "break;" but it generated an error message and said that I was using it
> "outside the loop" or something like that.
"break" is for exiting a loop, not for exiting the whole application.
> I would be grateful if
> someone could give me a clue on what I might use for this. Thank you
> very much. My code is below.
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> if (cost <= 0)
> {
> //I want the program to say "You can't enter a negative number."
System.out.println("You can't enter a negative number.");
> //Then the program should stop execution.
System.exit(1);
> }
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Cardinal - 28 Nov 2005 16:39 GMT
Thanks very much.
Worked perfectly.
Exactly what I was looking for.