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Thread: Creating a new variable from two others

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    Default Creating a new variable from two others

    Hello, very new... I've just been playing around with a program that's meant to ask the user for their name and age...

    Here's the code :

    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class Noerng {
     
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
     
    		Scanner name1 = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		System.out.println("Enter your first name :");
     
    		String firstName = name1.nextLine();
     
    		Scanner name2 = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		System.out.println("Enter your second name :");
     
    		String secondName = name2.nextLine();
     
    		System.out.println("hello there " + firstName + " " + secondName);
     
    		String fullName = firstName + " " + secondName;
     
    		Scanner age = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		System.out.println("How old are you?");
     
    		int userAge = age.nextInt();
     
    		System.out.println("You're " + fullName + ", and you are " + userAge
    				+ " years old.");
     
    		if (userAge < 21) {
    			System.out
    					.println("I don't think you're old enough to drink in America");
    		}
     
    		else {
    			System.out.println("I think you're old enough to drink in America");
    		}
     
    		name1.close();
    		name2.close();
    		age.close();
     
    	}
     
    }

    Would be great to have feedback to anything that's a bit off / not the done thing...

    Is there a way to close all of the scanners at once?

    cheers

    --- Update ---

    not sure why eclipse is formatting line 33 to a different one...


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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    Is there a way to close all of the scanners at once?
    You only need one.

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    Ah right - so all the lines that I've written that create new scanners are wrong... And I should just write

    Scanner age = (System.in)

    ?

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    Hmmm, not exactly. Create one Scanner instance with a name that makes sense to you. Something like:

    Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    But looking at the code in my first post - I've created a new scanner for each one, name1, name2, age.....

    Is there a better way that I should have done this?

    cheers

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    I thought we covered that already. You only need ONE that you can then use for each item input by the user:

    Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
    String name = input.nextLine();
    int age = input.nextInt();
    input.nextLine(); // why did I do this? Try it with/without and see why.
    String address = input.nextLine();

    etc.

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    Ah makes sense and I instantly feel a bit silly, cheers greg.

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    No worries, glad to help.

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    hii...
    Instead of using multiple scanners use only one scanner to read all the input values of different formats...
    for example..
    //create Scanner
    Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
    //so you can close the scanner once by usnig close() method in Scanner class
    Scanner.close();

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    Default Re: Creating a new variable from two others

    Quote Originally Posted by KotiChowdary View Post
    hii...
    Instead of using multiple scanners use only one scanner to read all the input values of different formats...
    for example..
    //create Scanner
    Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
    //so you can close the scanner once by usnig close() method in Scanner class
    Scanner.close();

    Cheers Koti - would it not be

    s.close();

    in that instance?

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