Basic Loops stalling with While Statement Mystery

I am learning loops and wrote a very simple program to test my skills. In the first example, everything works fine. I added a second part to the loop in the second program and it no longer loops. I know this has to be easy but after hours of searching for an answer I decided to see if any of the experts out there could help. Thanks in advance for your help!

Gary

FIRST EXAMPLE - WORKS FINE

import java.util.*;
public class loopTest {

public static void main(String[] args){

String response;

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Ready to start? Enter Y or N");
response = keyboard.nextLine();

while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"))

{
System.out.println("in the loop");

System.out.println("Do again? Enter Y or N");
response = keyboard.nextLine();
}

System.out.println("out of loop");


}

}

SECOND EXAMPLE STALLS!! I added a second instruction in the loop. When it gets to the end of the loop it doesn't wait for the user to enter a number, goes back to the WHILE statement, then ends. :mad:

import java.util.*;
public class loopTest {

public static void main(String[] args){

String response;
int number;

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Ready to start? Enter Y or N");
response = keyboard.nextLine();

while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"))
{
System.out.println("in the loop");

// New part to test loop
System.out.println("Enter a number");
number = keyboard.nextInt();
System.out.println(number);


System.out.println("Do again? Enter Y or N");
response = keyboard.nextLine();
}

System.out.println("out of loop");


}


}

Found this here -

Quote:

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Be careful about nextLine. It reads the rest of the current line. If you are in the middle of a line, or even if you are just before the end, it only gets the rest of this line. For example, suppose that you expect the user to type an integer and a string. You might try to read them as follows.

Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.print("How many? ");
int num = in.nextInt();

System.out.print("What is your name? ");
String name = in.nextLine();
But that does not work. The problem is that the user typed a newline character after the integer. Expression in.nextInt( ) reads the integer, but no more. It leaves the end-of-line marker still in the input. Now in.nextLine( ) just reads the rest of the line that contains the integer, which is probably an empty string. A better way to get a number and a string is as follows.
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.print("How many? ");
int num = in.nextInt();
in.nextLine(); // Skip the rest of this line.

System.out.print("What is your name? ");
String name = in.nextLine();

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After hours and hours of staring at this I got it to work in 30 seconds with your help. I totally appreciate it.

Gary