Scanner.hasNext（）返回false

Question

I have directory with many files in it - each with over 800 lines in it. Hovewer, when I try to read it using Scanner, it seems empty.

File f1 = new File("data/cityDistances/a.txt"),
     f2 = new File("data/cityDistances/b.txt");
System.out.println(f1.exists() && f2.exists()); //return true
System.out.println(f1.getTotalSpace() > 0 && f2.getTotalSpace() > 0); //return true
Scanner in = new Scanner(f1);
System.out.println(in.hasNext()); // return false;
System.out.println(in.hasNextLine()); //return false;

Why can it behave like that?

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I've managed to do it using BufferedReader . Nonetheless, it seems even more strange that BufferedReader works and Scanner didn't.

Answer 1

As the default delimeter for Scanner is whitespace, that would imply your a.txt contains only whitespace - does it have 800 lines of whitespace? ;)

Have you tried the following?

new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("a.txt")));

Answer 2

I had a similar problem today reading a file with Scanner. I specified the encoding type of the file and it solved the problem.

scan = new Scanner(selectedFile,"ISO-8859-1");

Answer 3

This also happened to me today. I'm reading a plain text file from a Linux system written by some application in a Windows box and Scanner.hasNextLine() is always false even tough there are lines with the Windows line separator and all. As said by Hound Dog, by using

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file))); 

it worked like a charm. FileReader or BufferedReader seem to properly identify and use some file characteristics.

Answer 4

Checking the scanner's exception may show that the file can't be read.

...
System.out.println(in.hasNext()); // return false;
IOException ex = in.ioException();
if (ex != null)
  ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
...

Answer 5

This probably doesn't answer the OP's question, but for anyone else who is experiencing "my iterator's hasNext() is always false!"--if you have a bunch of watches with .next() in them, your IDE or whatever is actually advancing the cursor position per each one. This has caused me much trouble. Be careful with iterators and watches.

Answer 6

The function File.getTotalSpace() is not behaving how you're expecting. It is returning the size of the partition where those particular files are located.

You want to use File.length().

Answer 7

refer to file address you are using linux, refer to your name there is possible some Polish or Czech character and refer to below link, scanner dont like non utf-8 characters on linux:)

http://karussell.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/encoding-issues-solutions-for-linux-and-within-java-apps/