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Myself, I'd prefer doing something like (in pseudocode):



do
prompt for an int
if no int held by Scanner (! hasNextInt)
done gets the Scanner's next line
else
list get's...

You can't call a method on a primitive, and the compiler should be complaining to you about this. You would do your parsing in a try/catch block and catch for a NumberFormatException. Search on this...