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Subject: Re: Double always returning 0.0
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On 4/18/2011 5:05 PM, Jason S wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to get my program to return
> the correct value here. It always returns 0.0 even though I (think) that
> everything is declared/cast correctly...
>
> Code located at http://web.cs.sunyit.edu/~savlovj/CS249/pg472_8
>
>

My guess would be you're getting the wrong values from the scanner into 
the wrong variables.  The places where you have two calls of nextLine() 
in a row, throwing away both values, seems especially suspect.

Suggestion 1. Print out the value of each variable after you read it in 
with s_scan and show us the result.

Suggestion 2.  Use next(), not nextLine().  Set the delimiter to 
"(\r\n)|(\n)" for newlines.