A little help!

[Eric]

The problems that I am having is that I can not get my items in
the switch statment to add up and give me a total at the end of
the program. No matter how many item numbers I enter the result
is always the same. also when I enter the sentinal value to let
the program know that I want to end the program and add up all
the values, it says that I have entered an invalid number and
when I enter a number other than 1,2,3,or 4, it does'nt do
that like I want it to. I am having a hard time with this
and I would really appriciate it greatly if anyone could give
me some tips. I have spent too long on this problem and I am
about to go crazy.




import javax.swing.JOptionPane;


public class salary2 {
public static void main ( String args [] ){


int inputNumber = 0,
item = 0,
basePay = 200;

String inputItem;


double sum;


while ( inputNumber != -1 ) {
item = item + 1;


inputItem = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, " Please enter Item

number 1, 2, 3, or 4,\n -1 when done: ");


inputNumber = Integer.parseInt( inputItem );

}

switch ( inputNumber ) {
case 1:
sum = 239.99;
break;
case 2:
sum = 129.75;
break;
case 3:
sum = 99.95;
break;
case 4:
sum = 350.89;
break;
default:
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, " INVALID number

entered!" );

}

sum = inputNumber * .09 + basePay ;


JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Total earnings are: " + sum,
"Total earnings",
JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE );


System.exit (0);
}
}

[Rajkamal Gopinath]

Hi,

The code works perfectly...

Check your code.. you are assiging different values to sum but you are overwriting
it immediately...

Check it out!

Regards

Rajkamal


"Eric " <Wdiv@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>The problems that I am having is that I can not get my items in
>the switch statment to add up and give me a total at the end of
>the program. No matter how many item numbers I enter the result
>is always the same. also when I enter the sentinal value to let
>the program know that I want to end the program and add up all
>the values, it says that I have entered an invalid number and
>when I enter a number other than 1,2,3,or 4, it does'nt do
>that like I want it to. I am having a hard time with this
>and I would really appriciate it greatly if anyone could give
>me some tips. I have spent too long on this problem and I am
>about to go crazy.
>
>
>
>
>import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
>
>
>public class salary2 {
> public static void main ( String args [] ){
>
>
> int inputNumber = 0,
> item = 0,
> basePay = 200;
>
> String inputItem;
>
>
> double sum;
>
>
> while ( inputNumber != -1 ) {
> item = item + 1;
>
>
> inputItem = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, " Please enter Item
>
> number 1, 2, 3, or 4,\n -1 when done: ");
>
>
> inputNumber = Integer.parseInt( inputItem );
>
> }
>
> switch ( inputNumber ) {
> case 1:
> sum = 239.99;
> break;
> case 2:
> sum = 129.75;
> break;
> case 3:
> sum = 99.95;
> break;
> case 4:
> sum = 350.89;
> break;
> default:
> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, " INVALID number
>
> entered!" );
>
> }
>
> sum = inputNumber * .09 + basePay ;
>
>
> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Total earnings are: " + sum,
>"Total earnings",
> JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE );
>
>
> System.exit (0);
>}
>}