Thread: Help With Scanner

I trust I'm posting this in the right forum. You nice people do consider 3 semesters of java still "new," right??

Anyway, I'm having a problem with Scanner. I have my program prompting me for a file name, and when I type in a file name and hit enter, the program does not seem like it's going to the next step. Now, when I step through in debug mode, it looks like it's making it to a few lines down, where I start scanning the file and counting the number of lines. But my lines variable goes waaaaay past the true number of lines in the file.

Anyway, what I don't understand, mainly, is why my program seems to get stuck. Is it because it's counting the lines? Also, why does it keep incrementing? My file has 10 lines...

Here's my code:

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    String filename; 
	 int lines = 0;
    Scanner input_scan = new Scanner(System.in),
	         file_scan;
 
    System.out.print("Enter a file name: ");
	 filename = input_scan.next();
 
	 file_scan = new Scanner(filename);
	 while (file_scan.hasNextLine())
	   lines++;

Here is everything in the text file I'm scanning:

1234 23 widget1
3456 123 widget2
4356 45 widget3
1056 1234 widget4
9999 237 widget5
9322 22 widget6
5322 755 widget7
3422 2 widget8
3333 95 widget9
1111 15 widget10

That's it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!