Floating-Point Variables and Exception Handling

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My program is supposed to accept a floating-point variable and then exit. However I am practicing some exception handling stuff and found a problem. Whenever you enter a letter into this program the program of course throws an InputMismatchException but it gets stuck inside an infinite loop. I assume my problem is based off of my misunderstanding of try-catch statements and exception handling.

public static void main(String [] args){

    Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
    boolean done = false;

    do{
        try{
            System.out.print("Enter a number: ");
            float number = reader.nextFloat();
            done = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            System.out.println("uh oh");
        }
    }while(!done);
}

This problem does not occur if I use a different variable type so I'm not sure if it's a logical error or just something funky with floating-point variables.

asked 32 secs ago

Christopher Bell

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Floating-Point Variables and Exception Handling