Getting User input with Scanner
- by Giannis
I am trying to have a scanner take input in a loop. Once the user wants to finish he can exit this loop. I have tried many different ways to do it but there is always some problem. This is the code:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Continue?[Y/N]");
while (sc.hasNext()&& (sc.next().equals("Y"))) {
System.out.println("Enter first name");
String name = sc.nextLine();
System.out.println("Enter surname");
String surname = sc.nextLine();
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System.out.println("Continue?[Y/N]");
}
}
The problem with the code above, which also happens on different methods I tried, is that when the user types Y, the scanner will skip the first input for first name,and jump to the surname. If the user types N the loop stops correctly. Someone can explain the reason this happens, and how to overcome using scanner class?
p.s: Doing something like while(sc.nextLine().equals("Y")), will cause the loop to terminate before getting input from user after first run of the loop.
