Hello all,
I am an online student in an intro to Java programming course and am a little stuck on my current program. I do not want the answer, but rather help figuring out what it is I am doing wrong. The program is supposed to prompt for an employee name, their hourly rate of pay, the number of hours they worked, and output their weekly pay. I have that part down, but now the course asks us to expand on that program to include a loop for the employee name, hourly rate, hours worked, and total weekly pay. The loop should be terminated when stop is entered for the employee name. I haven't got to the "stop" part yet because I cannot get the program to loop correctly. In command prompt, this is what it looks like...
Enter employee name or stop to quit: John Doe
Enter rate of pay: 5.00
Enter hours worked: 10
Total weekly pay for John Doe is $50.00
Enter employee name or stop to quit: Enter rate or pay:
My code is not complete, as I haven't got past the loop. Here is my code
//Checkpoint Payroll Program Part 2
//Multiplication program that calculates and displays an employees weekly pay
import java.util.Scanner; //program uses class Scanner
public class Payroll2
{
//main method begins execution of Java application
public static void main( String args[] )
{
// create Scanner to obtain input from command window
Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
String fName; // employee name
float rate;// first number to multiply
float hours;// second number to multiply
float total;// total of rate times hours
float counter;// number of employee names entered
// processing phase
// prompt for input and read employee name from user
System.out.print( "Enter employee name or stop to quit: " );// prompt
fName = input.nextLine(); // read employees name
// loop until sentinel value read from user
while ( fName != "stop" )
{
System.out.print( "Enter pay rate: ");// prompt
rate = input.nextFloat(); // read first number from user
System.out.print( "Enter hours worked: ");// prompt
hours = input.nextFloat(); // read second number from user
total = rate * hours; // multiply numbers
System.out.printf( "Weekly pay for " +fName+ " is $% s\n", total ); //display employee name and weekly total
} // end while
} // end method main
} // end class Payroll2
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Also any tips for setting the sentinel value would be great, as I haven't been able to find in my text if I
1) Need to set the sentinel value
2) How to set the sentinel value
Thanks much,
dno117