Scanner only reads first word instead of line

Question

In my current program one method asks the user to enter the description of a product as a String input  However  when I later attempt to print out this information  only the first word of the String shows  What could be the cause of this  My method is as follows    void setDescription Product aProduct        Scanner input   new Scanner System in       System out print  Describe the product          String productDescription   input next        aProduct description   productDescription      So if the user input is  Sparkling soda with orange flavor   the System out print will only yield  Sparkling    Any help will be greatly appreciated

User · Answer

Use input nextLine    instead of input next

User · Answer

Replace next   with nextLine     String productDescription   input nextLine

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input next   takes in the first whitsepace-delimited word of the input string  So by design it does what you ve described  Try input nextLine

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The javadocs for Scanner answer your question     A Scanner breaks its input into tokens using a delimiter pattern    which by default matches whitespace    You might change the default whitespace pattern the Scanner is using by doing something like  Scanner s   new Scanner    s useDelimiter   n

User · Answer

Javadoc to the rescue       A Scanner breaks its input into tokens using a delimiter pattern    which by default matches whitespace   nextLine is probably the method you should use

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