Scanner help

[onions]

Hi, I’m trying to find capitalized names in a sentence. For example: “His name is Bugs Bunny and he loves carrots. “ The code below will get Bugs Bunny but then it skips “and” because of the scan.next(); Is there any way to NOT skip the “and”? I want the scanner to continue scanning the same sentence in case of another name and I don’t want to miss any of the tokens.

*EDIT* I really apologize, I didn't realize i didn't post enough of the code to show the problem. The scanner goes through the sentence with a while loop, however when it finds a keyword (after the keyword might be a name) from the database in the sentence. It will check if the following word is capitalized and scans until it doesnt find a capitalized word anymore.

ArrayList<String> Persons=new ArrayList<String>();  
int i;  
Scanner scan=new Scanner("His name is Bugs Bunny and he loves carrots.");  
String word,nextWord,name=" ";  

 while (scan.hasNext()) {
                            word=scan.next();
                            db.pst = (com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement) db.con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM articletable");
                            db.rs = db.pst.executeQuery();
                            while (db.rs.next()) {
                                kword=db.rs.getString(2);
                                if(word.equalsIgnoreCase(kword))
                                {
                                    isKword=true;
                                }
                                
                            }
                            if(isKword){  //if a keyword was found, check if the following words are capitalized and add to arrayList
                                if(scan.hasNext())
                                {
                                    nextWord=scan.next();
   
                                    if(Character.isUpperCase(nextWord.charAt(0)))
                                    {
                                        name+=" "+nextWord;
                                        if(scan.hasNext())
                                        {   
                                            nextWord=scan.next();
                                
                                            while(Character.isUpperCase(nextWord.charAt(0)) && scan.hasNext())
                                            {  
                                                name+=" " +nextWord;
                                                nextWord=scan.next();
     
                                            }
                                        }
                                        if((name.trim().length() > 0)){
                                           Persons.add(name);
                                           name=" "; 
                                        }
                                    }

                                }
                                isKword=false;
                            }

                        }

[Fubarable]

Use a while loop to go through the String checking while (scan.hasNext()), and inside of this loop, call scan.next() only once. In other words each call to scan.hasNextXXX() should be matched by a single call to scan.nextXXX().