What would I need to change to make this random number generator code stop when it generates the "Chosen number"?

Question

The code I am trying to execute records guesses from numbers 1 to 100 using .randomNextInt(100) + 1. It is meant to do so only until the chosen number has been generated. Then, a message with the number of tries it took to generate is created.

This is my current code:

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Random;

public class FeelingLucky {
public static void main(String [] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

        Random random = new Random(1);
        final int theNumber = random.nextInt(100) + 1;
        
        int Tries = 1;
        System.out.print("Pick a number between 1 and 100: ");
        int theGuess = scanner.nextInt();


        while (theGuess != theNumber) {
            theGuess = random.nextInt(100) + 1;
            System.out.println(theGuess);
            Tries++;
            if (theGuess == theNumber)
            break;
        }

        System.out.println("It took " + Tries + " tries to match");
    }
}

I tried using the if and break statment after Tries++ to see if that would make it stop at the chosen number, however it did not seem to do anything. Help would be appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

Update: I was able to get it. I had the "guess" and the chosen "number" switched around. I thought you were supposed to create the chosen number yourself but you were supposed to read it in from the output given in the assignment.

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Random;

public class FeelingLucky {
public static void main(String [] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

        Random random = new Random(1);
        
        int theGuess = 0;
        System.out.print("Pick a number between 1 and 100: ");
        final int theNumber = scanner.nextInt();
        
        int Tries = 0;
        while (theGuess != theNumber) {
            theGuess= random.nextInt(100) + 1;
            System.out.println(theGuess);
            Tries++;
        }

        System.out.println("It took " + Tries + " tries to match");
    }
}