In a single class I have two different methods who are using the scanner class. I created a new instance of scanner object for the first method, then closed it at the end of the first method...then created a new instance of an object (with a different name) in the second method to finally close it at the end of this method.
Unless I open the scanner once and close it once it won't work and return an error. The double use of the scanner class doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?
Here are my two methods which return an error...
public void GameSetup(){
//intro to the program and what the user should expect to do
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
out.println("Let's play a little baseball game. Type down the scores for each team at the end of each inning to determine the winner!" +
"\nFor each inning enter the score for the first team, hit space and enter the score for the second team.\nFirst, let's enter the team names:");
//Console will ask for the team names.
out.println("What is the name of team 1?");
team1Name = in.nextLine(); //Read team name 1
out.println("What is the name of team 2?");
team2Name = in.nextLine(); //Read team name 2
in.close();//close the scanner
}
public void GetScores() {//this method will make the console ask for the scores for each innings
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
out.println("What is the score at the end of 1st inning? (team 1 score <space> team 2 score)"); //The console asks to enter scores for each team
team1Array[0] = input.nextInt(); //Read an integer for team 1 inning 1
team2Array[0] = input.nextInt(); //Read an integer for team 2 inning 1
out.println("What is the score at the end of 2nd inning? (team 1 score <space> team 2 score)");
input.close();
}