java string variable using .next() or .nextLine()

Question

the following is my sources code:

package functiontest;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOExce         


        

Answer 1

Your problem is that the line

option = scan.nextInt();

does not read the new line character after the integer. So that new line is finally read when you do nextLine(), later on.

To fix this, you should add an extra

scan.nextLine()

after the call to nextInt(), then use

cname = scan.nextLine();

when you want to read the clerk's name.