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Scanner issue! Code is skipping the first user input and printing twice instead of once ONLY on the first iteration

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse142/15sp/homework/6/spec.pdf
EDIT* Input Files are here:(sorry i'm new to stack overflow, hopefully this works)
I've also tried console.next() but it gives different errors than console.nextLine() in the rePlaceholder method. **
tarzan.txt - https://pastebin.com/XDxnXYsM
output for tarzan should look like this: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse142/17au/homework/madlibs/expected_output_1.txt
simple.txt https://pastebin.com/Djc2R0Vz
clothes.txt https://pastebin.com/SQB8Q7Y8
this code should print to an output file you name.
Hello, I have a question about scanners because I don't understand why the code
is skipping the user input on the first iteration but works fine on the rest.
I'm writing a code to create a madlib program and the link will provide the explanation to the program but pretty much you have these placeholders in a text file and when you see one, you prompt for user input to replace it with your own words. However, my program always go through TWO placeholders first and only ask the user input for one, completely skipping the first placeholder. What is wrong with my code??? Also, how do you fix this? Everything else is running perfectly fine, only that the first line is consuming two placeholders so I'm always off by one.
Welcome to the game of Mad Libs.
I will ask you to provide various words
and phrases to fill in a story.
The result will be written to an output file.
(C)reate mad-lib, (V)iew mad-lib, (Q)uit? c
Input file name: tarzan.txt
Output file name: test.txt
Please type an adjective: Please type a plural noun: DD DDDD <--- why is it like this
Please type a noun: DDDD
Please type an adjective: DD
Please type a place:
========================================================================
package MadLibs;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class MadLibs2 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
intro();
boolean isTrue = true;
while(isTrue) {
System.out.print("(C)reate mad-lib, (V)iew mad-lib, (Q)uit? ");
String choice = console.next();
if (choice.equalsIgnoreCase("c")) {
create(console);
}
else if (choice.equalsIgnoreCase("v")) {
view(console);
}
else if (choice.equalsIgnoreCase("q")) {
System.exit(0);
}
}
}
public static void view(Scanner console) throws FileNotFoundException {
System.out.print("Input file name: ");
String viewFile = console.next();
File existingMadLib = new File(viewFile);
Scanner printText = new Scanner(existingMadLib);
while(printText.hasNextLine()) {
System.out.println(printText.nextLine());
}
}
public static void create(Scanner console) throws FileNotFoundException {
System.out.print("Input file name: ");
String inputFile = console.next();
File newMadLib = new File(inputFile);
while(!newMadLib.exists()) {
System.out.print("File not found. Try again: ");
inputFile = console.next();
newMadLib = new File(inputFile);
}
System.out.print("Output file name: ");
String outputFile = console.next();
System.out.println();
PrintStream output = new PrintStream(new File(outputFile));
Scanner input = new Scanner(newMadLib);
while(input.hasNextLine()) {
String line = input.nextLine();
outputLines(line, output, console);
}
}
public static void outputLines(String line, PrintStream output, Scanner console) throws FileNotFoundException{
String s = "";
Scanner lineScan = new Scanner(line);
while(lineScan.hasNext()){
s = lineScan.next();
if(s.startsWith("<") || s.endsWith(">")) {
s = rePlaceholder(console, lineScan, s);
}
output.print(s + " ");
}
output.println();
}
public static String rePlaceholder(Scanner console, Scanner input, String token) {
String placeholder = token;
placeholder = placeholder.replace("<", "").replace(">", "").replace("-", " ");
if (placeholder.startsWith("a") || placeholder.startsWith("e") || placeholder.startsWith("i")
|| placeholder.startsWith("o") || placeholder.startsWith("u")) {
System.out.print("Please type an " + placeholder + ": ");
} else {
System.out.print("Please type a " + placeholder + ": ");
}
String change = console.nextLine();
return change;
}
public static void intro() {
System.out.println("Welcome to the game of Mad Libs.");
System.out.println("I will ask you to provide various words");
System.out.println("and phrases to fill in a story.");
System.out.println("The result will be written to an output file.");
}
}

in your rePlaceholder, change this line:
String change = console.nextLine();
Into this
String change = console.next();
Your problem is that nextLine doesn't wait for your output, just reads what it has in the console, waiting for a new line.
This is from the documentation to be a bit more precise on the explanation:
Since this method continues to search through the input looking for a
line separator, it may buffer all of the input searching for the line
to skip if no line separators are present.
UPDATE
After reading the comment, the previous solution will not work for multiple words.
After reading the output file, you are using next().
You need to make another call to nextLine() to clean the buffer of any newlines.
System.out.print("Output file name: ");
String outputFile = console.next();
console.nextLine(); // dummy call
System.out.println();

java input string with spaces

I am trying to read some data for a "Question" type, which has an id(int), statement(string) and answer(string). I'am using the code below:
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Id (uniquely!): ");
int id = scanner.nextInt();
System.out.print("Statement : ");
String statement = scanner.next();
System.out.print("Answer: ");
String answer = scanner.next();
If I enter sth like this "Who are you?" for "statement", it doesn't wait to type anything else for "answer" too. But if I do not use spaces in my statement it will work just fine. Also, if I use scanner.nextLine(), instead of scanner.next(), it doesn't work properly; it will allow me to introduce only one string for both statement and answer.
Does anyone have any idea?

try add scanner.nextLine(). It happens because scanner.nextInt() read only that number and not whole line, so rest of that line is still there. And you want to get rid of it so use nextLine() to get on next line.
It may look like this:
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Id (unic!): ");
int id = scanner.nextInt();
//Consume rest of the line
scanner.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enunt : ");
String stat = scanner.next();
System.out.print("Raspuns: ");
String ras = scanner.next();

Change to :
String statement = scanner.nextLine();
String answer = scanner.nextLine();
instead of using scanner.next();
Basically when you want trying to input string with spaces then try to use scanner.nextLine() instead of using scanner.next()
next() can read the input only till the space. It can't read two words separated by space. Also, next() places the cursor in the same line after reading the input.
nextLine() reads input including space between the words (that is, it reads till the end of line \n). Once the input is read, nextLine() positions the cursor in the next line.

Here scanner.next() takes token without space. You may try scanner.nextLine()

The reason your code was not working is :that nextInt() reads integer tokens; because of this, the last newline character for that line of integer input is still queued in the input buffer and the next nextLine() will be reading the remainder of the integer line (which is empty).
So you have to implement a nextLine() twice to get your output. As showed below.
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Id (uniquely!): ");
int id = scanner.nextInt();
System.out.print("Statement : ");
scanner.nextLine();
String statement = scanner.nextLine();
System.out.print("Answer: ");
String answer = scanner.nextLine();

or You can Scan a dummy String variable before scanning the original String Variable as shown below:
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Id (uniquely!): ");
String k = ""; //Dummy String Variable
int id = scanner.nextInt();
System.out.print("Statement : ");
k = scanner.nextLine(); // scanning of Dummy variable
String statement = scanner.nextLine();
System.out.print("Answer: ");
String answer = scanner.nextLine();

Why doesn't my program recognize the last names properly?

The scanner reads the wrong data, the text file format is:
111，Smith，Sam, 40，10.50
330，Jones，Jennifer，30，10.00
The program is:
public class P3 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String file=args[0];
File fileName = new File(file);
try {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(fileName).useDelimiter(", ");
while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
if (sc.hasNextInt( ) ){ int id = sc.nextInt();}
String lastName = sc.next();
String firstName = sc.next();
if (sc.hasNextInt( ) ){ int hours = sc.nextInt(); }
if (sc.hasNextFloat()){ float payRate=sc.nextFloat(); }
System.out.println(firstName);
}
sc.close();
} catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("Can't open file "
+ fileName + " ");
}
}
}
The output is:
40，10.50
330，Jones，Jennifer，30，10.00
It is supposed to be:
Sam
Jennifer
How do I fix it?

The problem is that your data isn't just delimited by commas. It is also delimited by line-endings, and also by Unicode character U+FF0C (FULLWIDTH COMMA).
I took your code, replaced the line
Scanner sc = new Scanner(fileName).useDelimiter(", ");
with
Scanner sc = new Scanner(fileName, "UTF-8").useDelimiter(", |\r\n|\n|\uff0c");
and then ran it. It produced the output it was supposed to.
The text , |\r\n|\n|\uff0c is a regular expression that matches either:
a comma followed by a space,
a carriage-return (\r) followed by a newline (\n),
a newline on its own,
a Unicode full-width comma (\uff0c).
These are the characters we want to delimit the text by. I've specified both types of line-ending as I'm not sure which line-endings your file uses.
I've also set the scanner to use the UTF-8 encoding when reading from the file. I don't know whether that will make a difference for you, but on my system UTF-8 isn't the default encoding so I needed to specify it.

First, please swap fileName and file. Next, I suggest you use a try-with-resources. Your variables need to be at a common scope if you intend to use them. Finally, when using hasNextLine() I would then call nextLine and you can split on optional white space and comma. That could look something like
String fileName = // ...
File file = new File(fileName);
try (Scanner sc = new Scanner(file)) {
while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
String line = sc.nextLine();
String[] arr = line.split("\\s*,\\s*");
int id = Integer.parseInt(arr[0]);
String lastName = arr[1];
String firstName = arr[2];
int hours = Integer.parseInt(arr[3]);
float payRate = Float.parseFloat(arr[4]);
System.out.println(firstName);
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("Can't open file " + fileName + " ");
e.printStackTrace();
}

how to give a string from user having space between it?

I want to give a sentence from standard input and my sentence might have a space between it. I want to split the string. How to take input from standard input device?
I can do it with hard coded string.
String speech = "Four score and seven years ago";
String[] result = speech.split(" ");

You can take input from user with nextLine() method of Scanner class
import java.util.Scanner;
public class SplitString
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in/*Taking input from standard input*/);
System.out.print("Enter any string=");
String userInput = scan.nextLine();//Taking input from user
String splittedString[] = userInput.split(" ");//Splitting string with space
}
}

Store the input in a StringBuilder, line by line.
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, "UTF-8"));
String line;
line = reader.readLine();
Then you can split your result.
String[] result = line.split("\\s");

how to insert a new line character in a string to PrintStream then use a scanner to re-read the file

I have several classes designed to simulation a book catalog. I have a book class (isbn, title, etc...), a BookNode class, a BookCatalog which is a LinkedList of books and a driver class (gui).
My problem is that I have a toString() method in BookCatalog that supposed to return a String representation of all the books. The Book class also overrides toString(). I'm supposed to have each field of the book separated by a "tab" and each book separated by a "new line". When I try to use PrintStream to print the book catalog to a .txt file, the \n doesn't register.
I've tried to change it to System.getProperty(line.separator) which displays the bookcatalog correctly. But now, I have a problem where the Scanner will not read the file correctly and throws a "NoSuchElementException". How do I get the scanner to 1) Ignore the line.separator or 2) have printStream use \n?
Book.java
public String toString(){
return isbn+"\t"+lastName+"\t"+firstName+"\t"+title+"\t"+year+"\t"+
String.format("%.2f",price);
BookCatalog.java
public String toString() {
BookNode current = front;
String s="";
System.out.println(s);
while (current!=null){
//each book is listed on separate line
s+=current.getData().toString()+"\n ";//System.getProperty("line.separator")
current = current.getNext();
}
return s;
}
Driver.java
public void loadDirectory() throws FileNotFoundException {
if (f.exists()){
Scanner input = new Scanner(f);
while (input.hasNextLine()){
String bookLine = input.nextLine();
processBookLine(bookLine);
}
}
}
public void processBookLine(String line){
Scanner input = new Scanner(line);
String isbn = input.next();
String lastName = input.next();
String firstName = input.next();
String title = input.next();
while (input.hasNext() && !input.hasNextInt()){//while next token is not an integer
title += " "+input.next();
}
int year = input.nextInt();
double price = input.nextDouble();
Book book = Book.createBook(isbn, lastName, firstName, title, year, price);
if (book!=null){
catalog.add(book);
}
}

The linefeed character \n is not the line separator in certain operating systems (such as windows, where it's "\r\n") - my suggestion is that you use \r\n instead, then it'll both see the line-break with only \n and \r\n, I've never had any problems using it.
Also, you should look into using a StringBuilder instead of concatenating the String in the while-loop at BookCatalog.toString(), it is a lot more effective. For instance:
public String toString() {
BookNode current = front;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while (current!=null){
sb.append(current.getData().toString()+"\r\n ");
current = current.getNext();
}
return sb.toString();
}