Java: Infinite loop using Scanner in.hasNextInt()

Question

I am using the following code:

while (invalidInput)
{
    // ask the user to specify a number to update the times by
    System.out.print(\"Specify an intege         


        

Answer 1

Flag variables are too error prone to use. Use explicit loop control with comments instead. Also, hasNextInt() does not block. It's the non-blocking check to see if a future next call could get input without blocking. If you want to block, use the nextInt() method.

// Scanner that will read the integer
final Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
int inputInt;
do {  // Loop until we have correct input
    System.out.print("Specify an integer between 0 and 5: ");
    try {
        inputInt = in.nextInt(); // Blocks for user input
        if (inputInt >= 0 && inputInt <= 5)  { 
            break;    // Got valid input, stop looping
        } else {
            System.out.println("You have not entered a number between 0 and 5. Try again.");
            continue; // restart loop, wrong number
         }
    } catch (final InputMismatchException e) {
        System.out.println("You have entered an invalid input. Try again.");
        in.next();    // discard non-int input
        continue;     // restart loop, didn't get an integer input
    }
} while (true);