Re: Help needed.

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From	neil furnival <neil.furnival@googlemail.com>
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Subject	Re: Help needed.
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On Jul 27, 1:13 am, markspace <-@.> wrote:
> On 7/26/2011 3:47 PM, neil furnival wrote:
>
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> > reply = myScanner.findInLine(".").charAt(0);
>
> You should learn how to debug your own programs, it's an important part
> of programming.
>
> My guess is in the line above the pattern "." was not found and
> findInlIne() returned null:
>
> "If no such pattern is detected in the input up to the next line
> separator, then null is returned"
>
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html#f...>
>
> I'll let you discover how to verify that this is indeed the problem, and
> what to do about it.

sorted. replaced

reply = myScanner.next().charAt(0);

in place of

reply = myScanner.nextInLine(".").charAt(0);

And works thanks for your reply.

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Help needed. neil furnival <neil.furnival@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-26 15:47 -0700
  Re: Help needed. markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-26 17:13 -0700
    Re: Help needed. neil furnival <neil.furnival@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-27 01:49 -0700
      Re: Help needed. lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 08:50 -0700
        Re: Help needed. lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 16:19 -0700
    Re: Help needed. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-27 11:33 -0700
  Re: Help needed. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-26 22:09 -0700

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