I am a new programmer and I am very inexperienced with exception handling as I am a student. I am writing a program that lets a users schedule appointments from the times of 1 - 6 o'clock. If the user enters a value anything other than an integer I want the program to tell the user that there was an error with his/her input and that it should be changed to an integer value, not double, String, char, etc. Here is my code below:
boolean created = false;
while (!created) {
// Asks when you want your appointment
System.out.println("When would you like your appointment?");
int userTime = input.nextInt();
try {
/**
* I really do not know what to put in here. If the user inputs things like
* letters and symbols and doubles or floats, etc. I want the program to send a
* message to the user saying that an integer value must enter an integer.
*/
userTime = input.nextInt();
} catch (InputMismatchException ime) {
System.out.println("Error! Please enter an integer from 1 to 6. Letters and symbols are not allowed");
}
/*
* Checks if the time value is either not in range and not taken- than lets you
* pass on to create the appointment and add it into the array
*/
if (userTime < 1 || userTime > 6) {
System.out.println("Time value not in range");
} else if (appointments[userTime] != null) {
System.out.println("Time already taken");
} else {
// Adds username into array of Appointments
created = true;
apTotal++;
appointments[userTime] = name;
}
}
Also, by the way- I am not completely sure if it is actually an inputMisMatch exception or something else, but if it isn't please let me know, as I am a beginner. Thank you all!
