Thread: Printing loop twice?

Hi, I'm very new to Java and I've run into a strange problem while I was writing a calculator class.

For some reason, anytime I run the program it prints this part twice:

System.out.println("Calculator started.");
System.out.println("Would you like to:");
System.out.println("Multiply");
System.out.println("Divide");
System.out.println("Add");
System.out.println("Subtract");
System.out.println("Random");
opr = inp.nextLine();

It's a pretty simple problem, but I'd also like some feedback on the rest of my code. Thanks!

import java.util.*;
 
public class CalculatorAdv {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		int fNum;
		int sNum;
		int aNum;
		String opr;
		int cont;
		Scanner inp = new Scanner(System.in);
		Random rand = new Random();
 
		System.out.println("Hello, welcome to the calculator.");
		System.out.println("Would you like to proceed? (Press 1 to continue, anything else to terminate.)");
		cont = inp.nextInt();
 
		do
		{
			int cont2 = 0;
			System.out.println("Calculator started.");
			System.out.println("Would you like to:");
			System.out.println("Multiply");
			System.out.println("Divide");
			System.out.println("Add");
			System.out.println("Subtract");
			System.out.println("Random");
			opr = inp.nextLine();
 
 
			if(opr.equalsIgnoreCase("Multiply"))
			{
				System.out.println("You've chosen multiply.");
				System.out.print("First number: " );
				fNum = inp.nextInt();
				System.out.print("Second number: " );
				sNum = inp.nextInt();
				aNum = mult(fNum, sNum);
				System.out.println(fNum + " times " + sNum + " equals: " + aNum);
				cont2++;
			}
			else if(opr.equalsIgnoreCase("Divide"))
			{
				System.out.println("You've chosen divide.");
				System.out.print("First number: " );
				fNum = inp.nextInt();
				System.out.print("Second number: ");
				sNum = inp.nextInt();
				aNum = div(fNum, sNum);
				System.out.println(fNum + " divided by " + sNum + " equals: " + aNum);
				cont2++;
			}
			else if(opr.equalsIgnoreCase("Add"))
			{
				System.out.println("You've chosen add.");
				System.out.print("First number: ");
				fNum = inp.nextInt();
				System.out.print("Second number: ");
				sNum = inp.nextInt();
				aNum = add(fNum, sNum);
				System.out.println(fNum + " plus " + sNum + " equals: " + aNum);
				cont2++;
			}
			else if(opr.equalsIgnoreCase("Subtract"))
			{
				System.out.println("You've chosen subtract.");
				System.out.print("First number: ");
				fNum = inp.nextInt();
				System.out.print("Second number: ");
				sNum = inp.nextInt();
				aNum = sub(fNum, sNum);
				System.out.println(fNum + " minus " + sNum + " equals: " + aNum);
				cont2++;
			}
			else if(opr.equalsIgnoreCase("Random"))
			{
				System.out.println("You've chosen random.");
				int rndchoice = rand.nextInt();
				System.out.println("Your random number is: " + rndchoice);
				cont2++;
			}
 
			while(cont2 == 1)
			{
				System.out.println("Would you like to perform another calculation?");
				System.out.println("1 for yes, anything else to terminate.");
				cont = inp.nextInt();
				cont2--;
			}
 
		}while(cont == 1);
 
		System.out.println("System terminated.");
	}
 
 
 
	public static int mult(int x, int y)
	{
		return x * y;
	}
 
	public static int add(int x, int y)
	{
		return x + y;
	}
 
	public static int div(int x, int y)
	{
		return x / y;
	}
 
	public static int sub(int x, int y)
	{
		return x - y;
	}
}

Try while loop instead of do while loop. Go through the details of while and do while which will make you clear regarding the issue you are facing. When you use do while your code actually gets executed atleast once inspite of your condition and then checks for your condition and based on the result (whether true or false) it either continues or exits from the loop.

Basically what is happening is when you are using the nextInt() method, there is still a newline character left in the buffer, which is picked up when calling nextLine(). Basically, you just need to clear out the buffer before going into your do-while loop.

I hope this makes sense