CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javajava.util.scanner
facundop
facundop

Reputation: 482

Java Scanner throws a NoSuchElementException

I'm learning Java, and by doing so, I've written a simple guessing game. Now I'm trying to improve it by adding additional features, but I'm stuck at trying to make it more "modular" i.e: using more methods vs a long main() method.

I have this:

while(!guessed) {
    System.out.println("Guess a number between 1 and 1000.");
    guessedNum = Integer.parseInt(input.nextLine());
    numCheck(guessedNum);
}
timeEnd = System.currentTimeMillis();
input.close();
System.out.println("Seconds to guess: " + (timeEnd - timeStart)/1000);

which works just fine, but if I try to make a separate method for "guess num" like this:

public static int guessNum() {
    System.out.println("Escriba un numero entre 1 y 1000.");
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    guessedNum = Integer.parseInt(input.nextLine());
    input.close();
    return guessedNum;
}

it throws the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found
    at java.util.Scanner.nextLine(Unknown Source)
    at game.Guess.guessNum(Guess.java:40)
    at game.Guess.start(Guess.java:28)
    at game.Game.main(Game.java:21)

I've been trying to toy around using a delimiter and nextLine(), but it's always the same error. Also I've tried debugging it with eclipse, but when it goes to nextLine it jumps to a page which says Source not found.

Any clue? I can modify my question if needed.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 325

Answers (1)

Ant's
Ant's

Reputation: 13811

Your closing the Scanner in this line:

input.close();

which also closes the System.in. So next time you read from the same scanner, you will get this error.

Upvotes: 2

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