nextLine() terminates program

[Java-Newbie]

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving (to those who celebrate it),

I have a small program that needs to read data off of a text file (name, city and age) and store it in an array. The program asks the user for a city name, and it's supposed to loop through the array and print out the names of people from that city. Now, my problem starts when I ask for the town to look for, since there are two-word towns (e.g. San Juan). I was using input.next() but it was only accepting the first word. I changed it to input.nextLine() and now it skips that part; it just exits the program.

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class projectCOMP2315
{
  public static void main( String [] args )
  {
    Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in);
       
    // Declaracion de variables
    String   nombreDocTXT = null,
             arregloTotalDatos [] = new String [600],
             stringPueblo = null,
             trimmedElement = null;
    int      totalDatos = 0,
             opcion = 0,
             x = 0,
             nuevoIndice = 0;
    boolean  flag = false;
           
    try
    {
      System.out.print( "¿Cual es el nombre del archivo a leer? " );
      nombreDocTXT = input.next();
    
      FileReader reader = new FileReader( nombreDocTXT );
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( reader );
 
      String leeUnoAUno = in.readLine();
     
      while( leeUnoAUno != null )
      {
        arregloTotalDatos[ totalDatos ] = leeUnoAUno;
        leeUnoAUno = in.readLine(); 
        totalDatos = totalDatos + 1;
      }
      
      System.out.print(" \n");
      for ( x = 1 ; x <= 45 ; x++ )
      {
        System.out.print( "*" );
      }
      System.out.print("  M E N U  ");
      for ( x = 1 ; x <= 45 ; x++ )
      {
        System.out.print( "*" );
      }
      System.out.print(" \n1. Print the names of people from a particular town. ");
      System.out.print(" \n2. Imprimir el nombre de todas …. ");
      System.out.print(" \n3. Imprimir los nombres de todas …. ");
      System.out.print(" \n4. Imprimir la lista completa de ….. ");      
      System.out.print(" \n5. Indicar cuántas personas hay en un …… ");
      System.out.print(" \n");
      for ( x = 1 ; x <= 101 ; x++ )
      {
        System.out.print( "*" );
      }
      System.out.print(" \n9. Salir del programa ");
      System.out.print(" \n");
      for ( x = 1 ; x <= 101 ; x++ )
      {
        System.out.print( "*" );
      }
      System.out.print(" \nSeleccion:  ");
      opcion = input.nextInt();
      
      in.close( );
    }
 
    catch( FileNotFoundException filenotfoundexxption )
   {
      System.out.println( nombreDocTXT + " no existe." );
    }
 
    catch( IOException ioexception )
    {
      ioexception.printStackTrace( );
    }
    
    switch (opcion)
    {
      case 1:
      {
        System.out.println( "\n¿De que pueblo desea buscar informacion? " );
        String pueblo = input.nextLine();
        
        stringPueblo = pueblo.trim();
        
        for ( x = 0 ; x < arregloTotalDatos.length ; x++  )
        {
          trimmedElement = arregloTotalDatos[ x ].trim();
       
          if ( (stringPueblo) .equals (trimmedElement) )
          {
            nuevoIndice = x - 1;
            System.out.println(arregloTotalDatos[ nuevoIndice ]);
            flag = true;
          }
        }
        
        if ( flag == false )
        {
          System.out.println( pueblo + "\nNo hay un record con ese pueblo." );
        }
      }
      case 9:
     {
        break;
      }
    } // termina switch
  } // termina main
} // termina projectCOMP2315

[Java-Newbie]

I just read cscgal message about people posting their homework problems in hopes of getting a quick solution. Just wanted you to know that I've tried everything I can think of to get a solution for this, you were my last resort.

I tried using two next() statements but it didn't work for single-word towns since it was expecting the user to write a second word...

[lookof2day]

Have you used Scanner.nextLine()??

[Java-Newbie]

I tried that and got " non-static method nextLine() cannot be referenced from a static context". Thanks... :-)

[lookof2day]

if you didn't got the exception here

nombreDocTXT = input.next();

then you can't get it when calling nextLine(); because it's just another method of Scanner class. However, can you provide your updated code that threw exception??

[iamthwee]

>Now, my problem starts when I ask for the town to look for, since there are two-word towns (e.g. San Juan).

It's pretty simple. Read in the file as lines.

Take that line, assign it to a String then use the appropriate 'string find' methods to get the part you want.

[lookof2day]

This was interesting. It was really skipping the readLine(). So try this..

System.out.println( "\n¿De que pueblo desea buscar informacion? " );
        input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String pueblo = input.nextLine();

It will work. I'm still trying to know the reason why it was skipping the instruction.

You will have to use some different logic here

nuevoIndice = x - 1;
            System.out.println(arregloTotalDatos[ nuevoIndice ]);

because you are reducing the current index 0 to -1 and trying to print element on -1st index...

[Java-Newbie]

lookof2day, thanks for your input, that did the trick... The reason I have this code here

nuevoIndice = x - 1;
System.out.println(arregloTotalDatos[ nuevoIndice ]);

is because the data in the text file is in the format,
Name
Town
Age
Name
Town
Age
etc....

so I already know that if I find a town with that name (e.g. San Juan), the element above it is a person's name.

Thanks everybody for reading my post and helping out...