"variable input might not have been initialized" ? Saying that after if statement?

[dannyboi]

import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class Main {
static Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in); 
public static void main (String [] args) { 


int number = 2;
String input;

while (true)
{
  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, number + "");
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Do you want to keep counting " + " Y or N");


if (input.equalsIgnoreCase("N"))
    break;
number +=2;
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "\nWhew! That was close.\n");
        
}

}

}

[Fou-Lu]

if (input.equalsIgnoreCase("N")). Input cannot match this, ever. It is null and never assigned any different value, and the compiler knows this. You can fix it by initializing its value to an empty string.

JOptionPane.show* messages will return a result for you to work with. Strings for input, and integers for confirmation and option dialogs.

[dannyboi]

ok, I still am running into the variable input problem

[dannyboi]

JOptionPane.show* messages will return a result for you to work with. Strings for input, and integers for confirmation and option dialogs.

ANd what does this mean?

[Fou-Lu]

Originally Posted by dannyboi

ANd what does this mean?

The signature for input dialog off of JOptionPane is:

public static String showInputDialog(Component, Object);
public static String showInputDialog(Component, Object, Object);
public static String showInputDialog(Component, Object, String, int);

Every one of these returns a string.

The final one:

public static Object showInputDialog(Component, Object, String, int, Icon, Object[], Object);

Returns an object. It's used for selections though, not direct input.