Thread: question about getting data from the console

I'm trying to fill an arraylist with number but I don't want the user to have to press enter after each number. I would like it if they could put all the numbers on one line separated by white space like so.

Enter initial candy counts: 23 32 43 5 6 54

here what I have so far.

also if anyone can point me in the right direction about how to end the loop after they press enter would be much appreciated.

thank you.

 
        Scanner userInput = new Scanner(System.in);
        ArrayList<Integer> candy = new ArrayList<Integer>();
 
        int numCandy = 0;
 
        while() {  
 
            System.out.println("Enter initial candy counts: ");
            numCandy = userInput.nextInt();
 
            candy.add(numCandy);
        }

Thanks for the idea. But now i cant figure out why the numbers are still strings. any ideas

 
        Scanner userInput = new Scanner(System.in);
        ArrayList<Integer> candy = new ArrayList<Integer>();
 
        String temp;
        String[] candyNum;
 
        System.out.print("Enter initial candy counts: ");
        temp = userInput.nextLine();
 
        candyNum = temp.split(" ");
 
        for (int i = 0; i < candyNum.length; i++) {
            candy.add(Integer.parseInt(candyNum[i])); 
       }

I thought Integer.parseInt(candyNum[i]) would change the string to a int?

API parseInt: "Parses the string argument as a signed decimal integer"

OMG i'm so sorry i must of made a mistake when i was testing it. everything works fine thanks for all your help.