Method is not reading the string I type in to it

Sean Mcavoy :

I am making a ticket system. If the user is searching for a ticket they type in the name. It is not working when i ask the user to type it in.

If I call the method like this: G1.displayTicket("John Blogs", LottoTickets); it does work!

Displaying a certain ticket:

System.out.print("\nDo you wish to search for a particular ticket? ");
String certainTicketQ = in.next();
if(certainTicketQ.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes"))
{
    System.out.print("Name of the person you wish to search for: ");
    String name = in.next();
    G1.displayTicket(name, LottoTickets);   
}

The method is:

public void displayTicket(String name,Ticket[] LottoTickets)
{
    for(int i = 0; i<LottoTickets.length;i++)
    {
        if(name.equalsIgnoreCase(LottoTickets[i].getName())){
            System.out.println(LottoTickets[i]);
            break; //Breaks out of loop once ticket is found
        }else break;
    }
}

Arvind Kumar Avinash :

The problem is due to the presence of else break; which is breaking the loop in the first iteration itself if LottoTickets[0] is not equal to name. It will return the correct result only when LottoTickets[0] is equal to name.

public void displayTicket(String name,Ticket[] LottoTickets) {
    for(int i = 0; i<LottoTickets.length;i++) {
        if(name.equalsIgnoreCase(LottoTickets[i].getName())) {
            System.out.println(LottoTickets[i]);
            break; //Breaks out of loop once ticket is found
        }else break;
    }
}

Just remove it and your method will work as intended i.e. it should be:

public void displayTicket(String name,Ticket[] LottoTickets) {
    for(int i = 0; i<LottoTickets.length;i++) {
        if(name.equalsIgnoreCase(LottoTickets[i].getName())) {
            System.out.println(LottoTickets[i]);
            break; //Breaks out of loop once ticket is found
        }
    }
}

Feel free to comment in case of any doubt/issue.