Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering why this method below causes an infinite loop to happen. I thought it would run once and then stop. Anyone can explain this? that'll be great.
public String printer(String s){
if (s.length() >= 5){
System.out.println("I'm " + s + " And my length = " + s.length());
}
return printer(s);Jump to Postreturn printer(s); calls printer(s) again, which executes down to the last line where it executes return printer(s); etc infinitely
return printer(s); calls printer(s) again, which executes down to the last line where it executes return printer(s); etc infinitely
if we need to execute the loop only once there is no need of recursion
using simply return; will help you to get the desired output
Thanks folks.
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