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© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved February 17, 2006 The ‘while’ Statement ComS 207: Programming I (in Java) Iowa State University, SPRING 2006 Instructor: Alexander Stoytchev

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved HW4 Questions?

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved HW 5 is out Due next Friday

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Quick review of last lecture

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Logic of an if statement condition evaluated statement true false

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Logic of an if-else statement condition evaluated statement1 true false statement2

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved The switch Statement The general syntax of a switch statement is: switch ( expression ) { case value1 : statement-list1 case value2 : statement-list2 case value3 : statement-list3 case... } switch and case are reserved words If expression matches value2, control jumps to here

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved The switch Statement switch (option) { case 'A': aCount++; break; case 'B': bCount++; break; case 'C': cCount++; break; } An example of a switch statement:

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Block Statements In an if-else statement, the if portion, or the else portion, or both, could be block statements if (total > MAX) { System.out.println ("Error!!"); errorCount++; } else { System.out.println ("Total: " + total); current = total*2; } See Guessing.java (page 216)Guessing.java

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Other Stuff from Section 5.3

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Data When comparing data using boolean expressions, it's important to understand the nuances of certain data types Let's examine some key situations:  Comparing floating point values for equality  Comparing characters  Comparing strings (alphabetical order)  Comparing object vs. comparing object references

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Float Values You should rarely use the equality operator ( == ) when comparing two floating point values ( float or double ) Two floating point values are equal only if their underlying binary representations match exactly Computations often result in slight differences that may be irrelevant In many situations, you might consider two floating point numbers to be "close enough" even if they aren't exactly equal

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Float Values To determine the equality of two floats, you may want to use the following technique: if (Math.abs(f1 - f2) < TOLERANCE) System.out.println ("Essentially equal"); If the difference between the two floating point values is less than the tolerance, they are considered to be equal The tolerance could be set to any appropriate level, such as

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Characters As we've discussed, Java character data is based on the Unicode character set Unicode establishes a particular numeric value for each character, and therefore an ordering We can use relational operators on character data based on this ordering For example, the character '+' is less than the character ' J' because it comes before it in the Unicode character set Appendix C provides an overview of Unicode

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Characters In Unicode, the digit characters (0-9) are contiguous and in order Likewise, the uppercase letters (A-Z) and lowercase letters (a-z) are contiguous and in order CharactersUnicode Values 0 – 948 through 57 A – Z65 through 90 a – z97 through 122

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Strings Remember that in Java a character string is an object The equals method can be called with strings to determine if two strings contain exactly the same characters in the same order The equals method returns a boolean result if (name1.equals(name2)) System.out.println ("Same name");

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Strings We cannot use the relational operators to compare strings The String class contains a method called compareTo to determine if one string comes before another A call to name1.compareTo(name2)  returns zero if name1 and name2 are equal (contain the same characters)  returns a negative value if name1 is less than name2  returns a positive value if name1 is greater than name2

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Strings if (name1.compareTo(name2) < 0) System.out.println (name1 + "comes first"); else if (name1.compareTo(name2) == 0) System.out.println ("Same name"); else System.out.println (name2 + "comes first"); Because comparing characters and strings is based on a character set, it is called a lexicographic ordering

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Lexicographic Ordering Lexicographic ordering is not strictly alphabetical when uppercase and lowercase characters are mixed For example, the string "Great" comes before the string "fantastic" because all of the uppercase letters come before all of the lowercase letters in Unicode Also, short strings come before longer strings with the same prefix (lexicographically) Therefore "book" comes before "bookcase"

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Comparing Objects The == operator can be applied to objects – it returns true if the two references are aliases of each other The equals method is defined for all objects, but unless we redefine it when we write a class, it has the same semantics as the == operator It has been redefined in the String class to compare the characters in the two strings When you write a class, you can redefine the equals method to return true under whatever conditions are appropriate

Chapter 5 Section 5.5

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Repetition Statements Repetition statements allow us to execute a statement multiple times Often they are referred to as loops Like conditional statements, they are controlled by boolean expressions Java has three kinds of repetition statements:  the while loop  the do loop  the for loop The programmer should choose the right kind of loop for the situation

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Logic of an if statement condition evaluated statement true false

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Logic of a while Loop statement true false condition evaluated

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved The while Statement A while statement has the following syntax: while ( condition ) statement; If the condition is true, the statement is executed Then the condition is evaluated again, and if it is still true, the statement is executed again The statement is executed repeatedly until the condition becomes false

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved The while Statement An example of a while statement: int count = 1; while (count <= 5) { System.out.println (count); count++; } If the condition of a while loop is false initially, the statement is never executed Therefore, the body of a while loop will execute zero or more times

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved The while Statement Let's look at some examples of loop processing A loop can be used to maintain a running sum A sentinel value is a special input value that represents the end of input See Average.java (page 229)Average.java A loop can also be used for input validation, making a program more robust See WinPercentage.java (page 231)WinPercentage.java

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Example: Average.java (page 229)Average.java

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Example: WinPercentage.java (page 231)WinPercentage.java

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Infinite Loops The body of a while loop eventually must make the condition false If not, it is called an infinite loop, which will execute until the user interrupts the program This is a common logical error You should always double check the logic of a program to ensure that your loops will terminate normally

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Infinite Loops An example of an infinite loop: int count = 1; while (count <= 25) { System.out.println (count); count = count - 1; } This loop will continue executing until interrupted (Control-C) or until an underflow error occurs

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Nested Loops Similar to nested if statements, loops can be nested as well That is, the body of a loop can contain another loop For each iteration of the outer loop, the inner loop iterates completely See PalindromeTester.java (page 235)PalindromeTester.java

© 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Nested Loops How many times will the string "Here" be printed? count1 = 1; while (count1 <= 10) { count2 = 1; while (count2 <= 20) { System.out.println ("Here"); count2++; } count1++; } 10 * 20 = 200

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