Question about exceptions

[supertechnewbie]

I tried to make a try-catch block in a program but when an exception occurs, it doesn't do what I intended

int num = 0;
boolean noException; 
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); 

while (true)
        {
            noException = true; 

            System.out.print("Enter a number or 0 to exit: ");

            try
            {
                num = keyboard.nextInt(); 
            }

            catch (InputMismatchException e)
            {
                noException = false; 
                System.out.println("\nNot a valid integer");

            }

            if (noException)
            {
                //rest of program (there is a break in here to exit) 
            } 
            }

It works fine when there is no exception, but
when I enter something that gives an exception, like "1.1"
it keeps printing constantly :
*Enter a number or 0 to exit:
Not a valid integer *

It seems to be skipping the try statement, I'm not sure why.

[tux4life]

The reason is that there's still data in the input stream after the exception has occurred.
You can fix it by reading a line when an exception occurs, using keyboard.nextLine().
Also it seems like your noException flag is redundant.

Play a bit with the following piece of code:

while (num != 0)
{
    System.out.print("Enter a number or 0 to exit: ");

    try
    {
        num = keyboard.nextInt();
        // If an exception is thrown on the line above, then all the code that
        // follows in this try block will not be executed.

        System.out.println("Input correct: " + num);

        //System.out.println("Data left in input stream = " + keyboard.nextLine());

        // Process num here
        // ...
    }
    catch (InputMismatchException e)
    {
        // Print data left in input stream
        System.out.println("\nNot a valid integer: '" + keyboard.nextLine() + "'");
    }
}