So as you may be able to tell from my attempt, I'm trying to figure out how I'd make a program which gives the user 5 seconds to enter some lines of text, then the Scanner will count how many lines were entered. I've just started learning Java as my 2nd language, so please try to explain everything as simply as possible :)
I've got two theories as to why it's not working. The first is that nextLine() will return the whole line, regardless of whether it's empty or not meaning rather than NL equaling "", it will actually equal the whole line (ie " "). And my second theory is that I've got no idea what I'm doing and the program flow is all over the place. Anyway, here's my code:
class OrigClass{
public static void main(String args[]){
Scanner ScanObj = new Scanner(System.in);
int Count = 0;
String NL = ScanObj.nextLine();
try{
Thread.sleep(5000);}
catch (InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
while (!NL.equals("")){
Count++;
NL = ScanObj.nextLine();
}
System.out.print("You Entered " + Count + " Lines.");
ScanObj.close();
}
}
Oh, I forgot to mention hasNext() was what I originally tried:
import java.util.Scanner;
class OrigClass{
public static void main(String args[]){
Scanner ScanObj = new Scanner(System.in);
int Count = 0;
try{
Thread.sleep(5000);}
catch (InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
while (ScanObj.hasNext() == true){
Count++;
ScanObj.nextLine();
}
System.out.print("You Entered " + Count + " Lines.");
ScanObj.close();
}
}