Help with a simple program please

Question

Hello, I am trying to create a java program that will request a password from the user (just input no gui fancy stuff) and give the user 5 tries to get it right. After the 4th guess, it needs to go from "You have # trials left." to "You have 1 trial left." It needs to become singular.
I have successfully created a program that does this, but it uses 5 if statements and 1 while. I was curious as to if there was a way to make this more "pretty" to look at. Perhaps eliminate some of the ifs. I'm not sure, but some help would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

Sorry, this is lessakilla. It seems I have two accounts here. I'll look into fixing that. But here is my dilemma still.
Well, I'm looking for a cleaner look. My program works fine and does what I want it to do, but i was wondering if I could somehow eliminate some of the if statements. There is a skeleton of the program below. Thanks in advance!
while count < 3
        if guess.equals(password)
print (correct. welcome)
   print (incorrect, you have (4 - count) trials left.)
++count;
        }Then I have this
if count == 3
        if guess.equals(password)
print (correct. welcome)
print (incorrect, you have (4 - count) trial left.)
++count;
     }Finally I have this
if count == 4
        if guess.equals(password)
print (correct. welcome)
print (incorrect, you lose.)
     }Edited by: vegunks on Oct 9, 2007 7:35 PM