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beginner programmer having trouble with Scanner and delimiters.

Here is the code that does not work:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ScannerTester {

public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Enter a double ");
double d = s.nextDouble();
System.out.println("Your double is " + d);
System.out.println("enter some more text\n");
String thisString = s.nextLine();
System.out.println(thisString);
}
}

The problem is that there is no pause to input the string. The method apparently reads something without waiting for keyboard input. I tried changing the new Scanner line to

Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("\n");

without success.

Am I right that a delimiter other than default is needed? If so, which one?

Thanks
 
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not quite. what you have to know is that a Scanner#nextDouble() will get the next token and return it if it parses into a well-formed double, but it does not eat the end of line mark. To do that, you should call scanner#nextLine() like so:
 
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