String Arrays and user input

[Josh Ibrahim]

Hey all, Im trying to write to the values of the string array studentNames using a for loop; however, when using the for loop it seems to skip the first iteration of the loop and makes studentNames[0] = "". why is it doing this? and what can I do to fix it? Any help would be appreciated thanks!

public static void main(String[] args)
             {
                 Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 
               //finding the length of the Array studentNames
               System.out.print("how many students?:");
               int totalStudents = in.nextInt();
 
     String[] studentNames = new String [totalStudents];
 
        //allows user to input student names
 
    for(int j = 0; j < studentNames.length;j++) 
    {
        System.out.println(j);
        System.out.print("enter student names:");
        studentNames[j] = in.nextLine();
    }
 
        for (String element:studentNames)
        {   
       System.out.println(element)
        }
}

[Dheeraj Joshi]

Change nextInt() to nextLine(). That will solve your problem.

int totalStudents = Integer.parseInt(in.nextLine());

Refer this link for info about nextLine().
Refer this link for info about nextInt().

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

[Gaurav Sachdeva]

Make different object of Scanner and use it to take string

Scanner in2 = new Scanner(System.in);
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studentNames[j] = in2.nextLine();