Exception handling problem

[computerbum]

Why in the world am I getting a continuous loop when I enter a character instead of a float variable when the program asks the user to enter a float value?

I created an exception to handle the incorrect data but it will not work correctly, why?

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class FloatingNumbersDriver {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        FloatingNumbers myValues = new FloatingNumbers();
        final int MAX_ERRORS = 0;
        int errors = 0, totalValues = 0, count = 1;
        String answer;
        float value = 0, sum = 0;

 
      

            System.out.print("\nEnter the total amount of float values to sum up: ");
            totalValues = in.nextInt();


            while(count <= totalValues){
                try
                {
            System.out.print("\nEnter a floating-point value: ");
            value = in.nextFloat();
            sum += value;
            count++;                               // increment total
                }
      
        catch(InputMismatchException e){
                System.out.println(" Invalid input, must enter a float value");
                errors++;
      
        }

            }
    }               
}

[Fubarable]

Don't forget to grab the end-of-line char with the Scanner object:

import java.util.*;

public class FloatingNumbersDriver {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    int errors = 0, totalValues = 0, count = 1;
    float value = 0, sum = 0;

    System.out.print("\nEnter the total amount of float values to sum up: ");
    totalValues = in.nextInt();
    in.nextLine();

    while (count <= totalValues) {
      try {
        System.out.print("\nEnter a floating-point value: ");
        value = in.nextFloat();
        in.nextLine();
        sum += value;
        count++; // increment total
      }

      catch (InputMismatchException e) {
        in.nextLine(); // *** this one especially! ***
        System.out.println(" Invalid input, must enter a float value");
        errors++;
      }
    }
  }
}

[computerbum]

I appreciate that, I have been going crazy trying to figure out what it wrong. I will always remember that.

Thanks again:)