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What to do:-)

Posted by senthoor on February 20, 2002 at 7:57 PM

right after your loop you can have a System.out.println() to achieve the purpose of showing the total number of items. Have a integer (int) variable called total out side the loop and initialise it to 0.

int total = 0;

Indise the loop after you get the response have an if statement and increase the total.

response = EasyIn.getChar(); //get response
if (response!='5')
total++;

Then outside the loop you could displace the total as the total number of items purchased.

If you would like the avoid the if condition which checks for '5' you may do so and outside the loop when displaying just reduce 1 from total and display...