Java is skipping a line (Strings in a Scanner ??) [duplicate]

Answer 1

The problem is that the nextLine gets any characters on the line, and the \n (newline character) is left over from the scanner inputs above.

So instead of letting you enter something new, it takes the \n as the input and continues.

To fix, just put two scanners back to back like this:

System.out.print("Name: ");
scanz.nextLine();
String namez = scanz.nextLine();

Just using:

String namez = scanz.next();

will work too, but will limit the names to be one word. (aka first name only)

Answer 2

I believe the intended use of nextLine is correct. The problem however is that nextInt does not create a newline token, and it's instead reading the rest of that line (which is empty). I believe that if another nextLine statement would be added after that, the code would work. Next on the other hand only recognizes the first word so that might not be the correct solution.