Try & Catch in While Loop doesn't work!

I have been trying to get this simple try/catch block to repeat within a while loop using a boolean value. Every time there is no exception handled, the program works fine. When an exception is caught however, the catch block goes on to continuously repeat until the code is forced to stop. Here is the code:

Code:

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import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in);
        boolean loop = true;

        while(loop == true){
            try{
                System.out.println("Enter a number:");
                int usrInt = input.nextInt();
                System.out.println("You wrote the number: " + usrInt);
                loop = false;
            }
            catch(InputMismatchException e){
                System.out.println("ERROR 01: Required type 'int' at line 12");
            }
        }
    }
}

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I want the code to continue looping after an exception is caught. I tried using "continue;" at the end of the catch block. It didn't work, and I found nothing on google that even slightly helped. Thanks for any help!

That's correct. If you want to break out of the loop when you catch an Exception, then use break at the end of the catch block.

Use input.nextLine() in the catch block.
this clears the buffer.

thanks subith86. works perfectly. maybe i'm asking too much, but i like to learn. What do you mean by buffer and why would an empty scanner method fix my problem? you don't need to answer, just curiosity :). Thanks a lot either way!

Well, when you use nextInt() to read an integer but you feed it with a String, it throws an exception. Now what I suppose (I'm not sure) is that, the string that you have entered is put in some buffer. When you try to read the second time using nextInt(), it doesn't actually go to read the new input, instead it reads the same String which is there in the buffer, entered by you earlier.

That's all help I can offer. Even I started learning Java only 3 months back ;)

awesome. i only started a month ago. thanks for all your help and info.