Thread: Need HELP understanding scan.nextInt() contructor!

Hello

I'm having trouble with a programming project. I understand the problem but I ran out of ideas to resolve the issue. I'm actually relearning java again and practicing before I re-enroll back into a University. Here is my code.

 
//*****************************************************************************
// PP 2.3   Author: Gregory Shavers
// 
// This project will take input from a user and display demographic & personal
// information about this person.
//
//***************************************************************************** 
 
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 
public class JavaApplication7 {
 
 
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
 
    String Name, College, Petname;
    int Age;
    Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
 
    System.out.print ("What is your name? " );
    Name =scan.nextLine();
 
    System.out.print ("What is your age? " );
    Age = scan.nextInt();
 
    System.out.print ("What is your college? " );
    College = scan.nextLine();
 
    System.out.print( "What is your pet name? " );
    Petname = scan.next();
 
   System.out.println(" \n Hello, my name is " + Name + " and I am " +  Age +
                     " years \n old. I'm enjoying my time at " + College + 
                       ", through  \n I miss my pet " +   Petname  + 
                      " very much!" );

This is the output of my application.

***Start of build***
run:
What is your name? Gregory B Shavers Jr
What is your age? 24
What is your college? What is your pet name? OB

Hello, my name is Gregory B Shavers Jr and I am 24 years
old. I'm enjoying my time at , through
I miss my pet OB very much!
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 13 seconds)

***End of Build***

As you can see for some reason my *College* and "Petname* varible string comes out into one line. What I want it to do is to output separately. The scanner object should take two *separete* Variables store them. And re output my answers in the sentences below. I know the issue is my nextLine constuctor but I don't know what lines of code to use to fix this. I checked google and found some answers. Some of them code they did didn't make sense to me. I already busted through my old text book but I couldn't find and examples or hint on how to resolve this problem. I even checked this site to find some answers but I could not find any recent post. Would the community bless on some knowledge on how to properly use the scan.nextInt constuctor. I would greatly appericated.


Thanks!

**Happy Coding***

Careful with what you call a constructor since scan.nextInt(...) isn't a constructor but rather a method, and this distinction is important.

Your error is common: nextInt() does not handle the end of line (EOL) token, so it is left dangling. The next time you call nextLine() the EOL token gets swallowed messing your program up. The solution -- handle the EOL token yourself by calling nextLine() on the Scanner immediately after calling nextInt() (or nextDouble() or similar).

i.e.,

    System.out.print ("What is your age? " );
    Age = scan.nextInt();
    scan.nextLine();  // ******* add this! *******
 
    System.out.print ("What is your college? " );
    College = scan.nextLine();

Thank you very much! I'm relearning the vocabulary for java again. So its going to take me a sec to catch up again. Thanks again works like a charm!

You're welcome!