根据用户输入构造双精度值数组

Question

So i wanted to produce a program in which the user is prompted to input as many Double values as they want, and the program stores these values in an array until the EOF (when the user presses ctl + d), and then prints the sum of these numbers to output. This is what i have so far:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class ArrayExample {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
  System.out.print("Enter line: ");
  ArrayList<Double> nums = new ArrayList<Double>();
  double input = keyboard.nextDouble();

  while (input.hasNextLine()) {
   input = keyboard.nextDouble();
  }
  System.out.print(nums);
  double sum = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < nums.size(); i++) {
   sum+=Integer.parseInt(nums.get(i));
  System.out.println(sum);
  }
 }
}

My questions were how would i use a loop to keep reading input doubles until EOF, is the ArrayList the best way to store the users inputs and is that the most correct way to get the sum? Thank you!

Answer 1

Modify the while and for loops as per the snippet below. In the while loop, just use Scanner's hasNextDouble() method directly and add values to your Arraylist as they are entered. In the for loop, you don't need to parse the values to integers since sum is a double which is the datatype of your Arraylist. Arraylist is right for your case since you are not sure of how many values you will get from the user; Arraylists are resizable.

  while (keyboard.hasNextDouble()) {
      nums.add(keyboard.nextDouble());
  }
  keyboard.close();
  System.out.println(nums);
  double sum = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < nums.size(); i++) {
   sum += nums.get(i);
  }
  System.out.println(sum);