How to clear buffer in Java?

[cold_fusion]

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ok.but you could change the delimiter by:
new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("\n");

[ares623]

ok.but you could change the delimiter by:
new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("\n");

salamat kaayo bai! murag ok na ni.. :mrgreen:
what does a 'delimiter' mean btw?

[cold_fusion]

you're welcome

Delimiter is the string that signals/defines the end or limit of something.
In your case "\n" or carriage return will delimit your Scanner object variables.

[eax]

you're welcome

Delimiter is the string that signals/defines the end or limit of something.
In your case "\n" or carriage return will delimit your Scanner object variables.

Sakto.

Another example is StringTokenizer.

[ares623]

another question..

how do I make a prompt like this:

"Press ENTER to continue."
<user presses ENTER then the program continues>

sorry if this isn't allowed in here

[cold_fusion]

Print the prompt then loop your program endlessly until you got '\n' as input.

[ares623]

Print the prompt then loop your program endlessly until you got '\n' as input.

thanks.. hmm.. i'm doing this.

char enter = 'a';
System.out.println("Press ENTER to continue. ");
while(enter != '\n')
  enter = keyboard.next().charAt(0);

but it's not working.. i'm obviously doing it wrong. hehehe.

[c00ld1ds]

i have a problem with my Java program..
i need to input 2 Strings and 1 char using a Scanner object named console..
so i use

Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
...
String First = console.nextLine();
char Middle = console.next().charAt(0);
String Last = console.nextLine();

now, it works fine the first time, but when I want to input again, it skips First and asks for Middle right away (especially when First or Last has blank spaces).
i read about clearing input buffers in C when I had a similar problem, but how do I do it in Java?

Maybe you should try taking the entire line into a variable, and then finding out what your values are. It looks like when you get the first name, you use console.nextLine(), which would take the entire line, putting the entire name into the firstname variable.

and to answer your question, to clear the buffer you type

console.nextLine();

don't assign it to a variable and the input is just thrown out.