Gibberish at end of input

[titan420]

I'm going back and forth from work to home with a program, and my laptop at home just started screwing up input. i thought it might have been an edit i did on the program, so i made a simple program that asks for input, assigns it to a string, and prints the string. I am using Crimson Editor which was working fine last night. Whatever i enter into the input field, after i hit enter, it's shown as having a random number of random ascii characters at the end. When i print the string to which it is assigned, it correctly prints out the incorrect string.

If i try to enter the word glass,here's what i get:

---------- Capture Output ----------
> "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\bin\java.exe" a
Enter something
glassšÒ<‚
glassšÒ<‚

> Terminated with exit code 0.

Here's entering 123:

---------- Capture Output ----------
> "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\bin\java.exe" a
Enter something
123v{šÒ<‚
123v{šÒ<‚

> Terminated with exit code 0.

But, if i repeat an entry, i always get the same string of gibberish appended at the end. Thanks for any help.

[JosAH]

You should show us the source code; anything can be wrong ...

kind regards,

Jos

[titan420]

Here's the code:

import java.util.*;

public class a
{
public static void main(String[]args)
{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
String dateEntry = "";

System.out.println( "Enter something" );
dateEntry = input.nextLine();
System.out.println( dateEntry );
}
}

[JosAH]

So if you enter 123 it is echoed as:

123v{šÒ<‚

If so, I don't think its your program to blame. Check if your Java installation is fine to start with (same compilation version as the runtime version etc.) Do you experience the same behaviour on other machines? I doubt it.

kind regards,

Jos

[titan420]

Thanks. I don't know what the problem was, but an uninstall/reinstall of both Crimson (Emerald) Editor and JDK2 fixed it.