Scanner for String in for loop

[CannonVulcan]

I need to read the name of a person in a program and then a number amount for sales.

Essentially I create a scanner object "read" and do this.

Name = read.nextLine();
sales = read.nextDouble();

(I removed most of the other code to avoid confusion). This works fine at first but im running in a for loop which means it then tries to repeat the code. When it tries again it skips the name entry. I know this is something to do with a nextline glitch that happens when you read.nextLine after a double.
I would usually do this

Name = read.nextLine();
Name = read.nextLine();

That usually solves the problem in procedural but if I do that in this program I have to enter the first person's name twice. Is there a way around this that I can read a string and a double one after the other?

[Fubarable]

One problem you may be running into is that Scanner#nextDouble() (and nextInt(), next(),...) do not handle the end of line (EOL) token, and so this token is being read by your next call to nextLine(), where you're trying to read in the next name. A solution is to call nextLine() when you need to handle that token. For instance:

name = read.nextLine();
sales = read.nextDouble();
read.nextLine();  //  **** add this to handle the EOL token ****

Note that for similar problems, you'll want to post some of the data file so we can see how it is formatted as this can change everything.

[CannonVulcan]

Thank you very much that helped a lot program works perfectly now :)

[Fubarable]

Glad it works!