How do I exit a while loop by pressing enter?

Question

I am trying to get a while loop to break by pressing the Enter key on a keyboard. My code is:

package javaapplication4;
import java.util.ArrayList         


        

Answer 1

Don't use a loop for getting the input, or nextDouble. What you really want is one line of input, which you then split into a list of doubles. So use nextLine, split it, and parse each item. Something like this:

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
ArrayList numbers = new ArrayList( );
String input = keyboard.nextLine();
for(String item : input.split(" ")){
    numbers.add(Double.parseDouble(item));
}

This ignores any sort of input validation, but it shows a general approach.

This will work because once you hit "enter", it ends the first line, meaning the scanner can move past the nextLine into the bulk of your code. Since you never try to read anything more, it doesn't block waiting for any more input, and can successfully exit once done.