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Greetings! I am attempting to write a program that will allow a user to manipulate data read from a file, and am obviously in no way near finished. However, one problem I'm having that I don't understand is with my switch subroutine. In the below code, if I select "d" or anything that is an invalid response, it loops correctly back to the menu. However, if I attempt to insert (i), find (f), or delete (d) it loops back to the menu *but* immeidately crashes with the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Strin gIndexOutOfBoun dsException: String index out of range: 0
at java.lang.Strin g.charAt(Unknow n Source)
at Project4.main(P roject4.java:62 )

Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this error? It seems to be immediately assuming some sort of input on the part of the user before anything is typed, and I don't understand why.
Thanks!

public class Project4
{

// Begin Main

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System. in);
String choice, response = null;
ArrayList students = new ArrayList();
boolean done = false;
boolean goodFile = false;
String Firstnamepart;
String Lastnamepart;
double Gpapart;
int Creditpart;
int Idnumberpart;
File input = null;
while (!done)
{
while (!goodFile)
{
System.out.prin t("Enter input file name: ");
try
{
String name = stdin.nextLine( );
input = new File(name);
Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(input);
while (fileIn.hasNext ())
{
String currentLine = fileIn.nextLine ();
String[] parts = currentLine.spl it(" ");
Firstnamepart = parts[0];
Lastnamepart = parts[1];
Gpapart = new Double(parts[2]).doubleValue() ;
Creditpart = new Integer(parts[3]).intValue();
Idnumberpart = new Integer(parts[4]).intValue();
Student newStudent = new Student(Firstna mepart, Lastnamepart, Gpapart, Creditpart, Idnumberpart);
students.add(ne wStudent);
System.out.prin tln("Contents of this file are: \n" + newStudent);
} // end while
goodFile = true;
} //end try
catch (IOException ie)
{
System.out.prin tln("The file you entered was not found.");
System.out.prin t("Please try again. \n\n");
} // end catch
} // end while (!goodfile)
System.out.prin t("Would you like to: insert student(i), remove student(r), find student(f), display list(d) or quit(q): ");
choice = stdin.nextLine( );
switch (choice.charAt( 0))
{
case 'i':
System.out.prin t("Enter first name of student: ");
Firstnamepart = stdin.nextLine( );
System.out.prin t("Enter last name of student: ");
Lastnamepart = stdin.nextLine( );
System.out.prin t("Enter students GPA: ");
Gpapart = stdin.nextDoubl e();
System.out.prin t("Enter students credits: ");
Creditpart = stdin.nextInt() ;
System.out.prin t("Enter students ID number (SSN): ");
Idnumberpart = stdin.nextInt() ;
Student newStudent = new Student(Firstna mepart, Lastnamepart, Gpapart, Creditpart, Idnumberpart);
students.add(ne wStudent);
for (int i = 0; i < students.size() ; i++)
System.out.prin tln("\nStudent " + i + "\n" + students.get(i) );
break;

case 'r':
System.out.prin t("Enter ID number of student to be removed: ");
Idnumberpart = stdin.nextInt() ;
// try
// {
// for (int i = 0; i < students.size() ; i++)
// students.get(Id numberpart);
// newStudent = students.contai ns(i);
// students.remove (newStudent);
// } // end try
// catch (NotFound exception)
// {
// System.out.prin tln("Student with ID number " + Idnumberpart + "was not found.");
// } // end catch
break;

case 'f':
System.out.prin tln("Enter ID number of student to find: ");
Idnumberpart = stdin.nextInt() ;
break;

case 'd':
System.out.prin tln("Choice = " + choice);
System.out.prin tln("List is now:");
for (int i = 0; i < students.size() ; i++)
System.out.prin tln("\nStudent " + i + "\n" + students.get(i) );
break;

case 'q':
done = true;
break;

default:
System.out.prin tln("Invalid Response");
break;
} // end switch
} // end while (!done)
} // end main
} // end class
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