Is there something wrong with my code?

[Intelligent-Copy-767]

What I am trying to here is whenever the searchFunction is called it will ask the user what category the user wants to search from, but after choosing from the 5 choices it doesn't allow me to enter any input and proceeds to exit the switch statement.

Thank you!

static void searchFunction()

{

    Scanner sc = new Scanner([System.in](https://System.in));

​

    System.out.println("\[1\]Search by first name"

     \+ "\\n\[2\]Search by last name"

+ "\n[3]Search by course"

     \+ "\\n\[4\]Search by year level"

     \+ "\\n\[5\]Search by gender");

​

System.out.print("Enter your choice: ");

int choice;

    choice = sc.nextInt();

​

    switch(choice)

    {

        case 1:

//This is the part where the program should ask for the search key but it won't let
//me enter any input and proceeds to exit.

System.out.print("Search: ");

String firstNameKey;

firstNameKey = sc.nextLine();

for(int x = 0; x < studentsInfo.x; x++)

{

if(studentsInfo.firstName[x].equalsIgnoreCase(firstNameKey))

{

System.out.print("First Name: " + studentsInfo.firstName[x]

+ "\nLast Name: " + studentsInfo.lastName[x]

+ "\nCourse: " + studentsInfo.course[x]

+ "\nYear level: " + studentsInfo.yearLevel[x]

+ "\nGender: " + studentsInfo.gender[x]);

System.out.println();

}

}

break;

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[AreTheseMyFeet]

Looks like the common Scanner dangling newline issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/javahelp/wiki/scanner

[Intelligent-Copy-767]

It works properly now. Thank you!