Validating input using java.util.Scanner [duplicate]

Answer 1

One idea:

try {
    int i = Integer.parseInt(myString);
    if (i < 0) {
        // Error, negative input
    }
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
    // Error, not a number.
}

There is also, in commons-lang library the CharUtils class that provides the methods isAsciiNumeric() to check that a character is a number, and isAsciiAlpha() to check that the character is a letter...