No Line Found - Java

Question

I am inputting a txt file, here is a shortened version

10  

"Alexander McCall Smith" "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

I run this code:

Scanner in = new Scanner(new File(newFile + ".txt"));

int size = in.nextInt();

String inputLine = in.nextLine();

size ends up being 10, but inputLine ends up receiving nothing. I get the error

Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found.

I went to debugger and it says a string with position (-1, -1) is what java tries to insert into

inputLine.

I have no clue why, I know there is 50+ lines of text after 10. I ran

in.next()

and it worked just fine. Does anyone know why?

I run this code as well:

inputLine.trim();

int posn = inputLine.indexOf('\"');

int nextPosn = inputLine.indexOf('\"',posn + 1);

String author = inputLine.substring(posn, nextPosn);

Answer 1

Andrew Li has it right. Calling nextInt does not consume the line, so you're still on the first line, the one with "10" on it.

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
    Scanner in = new Scanner(Test.class.getResourceAsStream("input.txt"));
    int size = in.nextInt();
    String inputLine = in.nextLine();
    System.out.println(size); // prints "10"
    System.out.println(inputLine); // prints nothing

    inputLine.trim();
    int posn = inputLine.indexOf('\"');
    int nextPosn = inputLine.indexOf('\"', posn + 1);
    String author = inputLine.substring(posn, nextPosn); // Throws: "java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1"
}

If you were to call nextLine twice in a row, you would get the "Alexander" line.

(I have no idea where you're getting a NoSuchElementException. It must be from somewhere else in your program.)

No Line Found - Java

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