User input to repeat program in Java

Question

I am writing a simple guessing game program where the user will input a number to try and guess a randomly generated number.

If they get the number right I want to

Answer 1

Here is the code:

private Random num = new Random();

private int answer = num.nextInt(10) +1;

private int guess;

private String playAgain;

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

public void inputGuess(){
    System.out.println("Enter a number between 1 and 10 as your first guess: ");

    guess = input.nextInt();
    do{
        if (guess < 1 || guess > 10){
            System.out.println("That is not a valid entry. Please try again: ");
            guess = input.nextInt();
        }else if (guess > answer){
            System.out.println("Too high, Try Again: ");
            guess = input.nextInt();
        }else if (guess < answer){
            System.out.println("Too low, Try Again: ");
            guess = input.nextInt();
        }

        if(guess == answer) {
            System.out.println("Congratulations, You guessed the number!");
            System.out.println("Would you like to play again? Enter Y to play or any other key to quit: ");
            playAgain = input.nextLine();
        }

    }while (!playAgain.equals("Y") && !playAgain.equals("y"));
}

You just need to introduce the winning/losing logic inside the while, and the condition will be the ending/continue flag.

Another thing is always remember when comparing strings to use the equals method, since the == will compare the object reference and not the String value, in some cases == will return true for equal string since how JVM stores the Strings, but to be sure always use equals.