[GDubz]

So, im making a game and my program asks the user "how many people are playing?" and then depending on the input, the is suppose to ask for the first players name, then user enter name, then the program asks for the 2nd persons name, and so on...
but when my current code will ask the number of players then just print out the questions and not take any responses from the user and i get a run-time error then..

System.out.println("Enter number of players: ");
		numPlayer = in.nextInt();
		
		for(int i = 1;i < (numPlayer+1);i++)
		{
			System.out.println("Enter name for Player "+i+": ");
			String name = in.nextLine();
			players.add(name);
		}

[CasiOo]

Please post your full code and copy past the exact error message you get.

I don't see the error in the code you have posted so far

[GDubz]

Enter filename for questions and answers:
lab3.txt
Enter number of players:
2
Enter name for Player 1:
Enter name for Player 2:
greg

thats the console(it wont let me enter in 2 names)
the error is in this part

public static void getPlayerData(Scanner in, int numPlayer, ArrayList<String> players) throws IOException
	{

		System.out.println("Enter number of players: ");
		numPlayer = in.nextInt();
		
		for(int i = 1;i < (numPlayer+1);i++)
		{
			System.out.println("Enter name for Player "+i+": ");
			String name = in.nextLine();
			players.add(name);
		}
	}

[smohd]

This is because you mixed nextInt() and nextLine(). The nextInt() scans the next token as integer but does not advance past the current line. So if nextLine() comes after it, it reads the line feed remain as its next token(because it accept empty line).
You need to clear buffer before calling nextLine() every time you use nextInt(), next(),nextDouble()... by calling nextLine() first before calling to take input. So in your code before starting the loop you will add:

in.nextLine(); 
for(int i = 1;i < (numPlayer+1);i++)

Or to avoid it at all, some people use to use only nextLine() for the whole input and then parse the input according to its data type required

[GDubz]

ahhh ok, that worked, thanks buddy

[smohd]

Glad we could help