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"Nicholas Routledge" <n.routledge@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm having this extremely frustrating problem that i can't see to fix.
> I have a method called processRequest and when called, returns a string.
> After processRequest is called, the string that is returned is assigned to
a
> variable called status.
> this is what i have next,
>
> if (status.equals("Confirm")) {
>     ...
>     System.out.println("Confirm (Y/N): ");
>     char c = (char) br.read();
>     ...
> }
>
> else if (status.equals("Alternate")) {
>     ...
>     System.out.println("Confirm (Y/N): ");
>     char c = (char) br.read();
>     ...
> }
> .
> .
>
> Now the problem is, the System.out.println statements in each conditional
> branch are executed TWICE for some reason.  They should only be executed
> once because the statements are not nested inside a loop.  Also, i have no
> recursion anywhere in the program.
>
> For example, if the first branch is taken, it prints out,
> "Confirm (Y/N): "
> "Confirm (Y/N): "
>
> Its extremely wierd but i was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions
> or whether anyone had seen this problem before?
> I can't explain it.


The read() method call returns the next *byte* of data from the input
stream. You probably want to read the next *line* from the stream; Q7.2 in
the Java Programmers FAQ shows you how to do that.
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