Very new to programming. Trying to get my player to walk to the mouse click position.

    private void getInput(){
    xMove = 0;
    yMove = 0;
    
    float   tempX = handler.getMouseManager().getMouseX();
    float   tempY = handler.getMouseManager().getMouseY();
    float   diffX = tempX - x;
    float   diffY = tempY - y;
    
    
    
    if (handler.getMouseManager().leftPressed)  {
        
            x = tempX;
            y = tempY;
    }
        
    }

currently have this which "teleports" my character to the clicked position.

first thing that came to my mind was to use (for moving to a click which is to the right)

if (handler.getMouseManager().leftPressed) { 
    if(diffX>0){
            for(float counter = 0; counter = diffX; counter++)
                xMove = speed;
        }}

However this doesnt work. Any pointers?

I am very new to programming, and trying to get my player to walk to the mouse click position. I currently have this script, which "teleports" my character to the clicked position:

private void getInput() {
    xMove = 0;
    yMove = 0;
    
    float tempX = handler.getMouseManager().getMouseX();
    float tempY = handler.getMouseManager().getMouseY();
    float diffX = tempX - x;
    float diffY = tempY - y;

    if (handler.getMouseManager().leftPressed) {
        x = tempX;
        y = tempY;
    }
}

The first thing that came to my mind was to use the following script, for moving to a click which is to the right:

if (handler.getMouseManager().leftPressed) { 
    if(diffX>0) {
        for(float counter = 0; counter = diffX; counter++)
            xMove = speed;
    } 
}

However, this doesn't work. How would I go about making my player walk to the mouse click position?