getting user input & seperating into integers

[deroga]

What I am trying to do is get a list of numbers from the user, the numbers must be in the 1 - 9 range so they will all be single digits. I do not know ahead of time how many numbers there will be, except that it will be at least 1 and no more than 4.

I was using the following code to get them one at a time:

		Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
		System.out.println("Enter a number: ");
		int yourInt = in.nextInt();

I could put this in a loop until they enter something out of range but I don't really like that idea. I would to have something like this:

Enter some numbers: 2 5 1
and end up with an int array x such that
x[0] = 2;
x[1] = 5;
x[2] = 1;

And I actually don't care about the order.

It is just a simple console based application for my own use so at this point I am not worrying about the exception handling.

Any thoughts or ideas?
Deroga.

[sjalle]

If the numbers are all the input you need then why not supply the numbers at application
startup like:

java MyApp 2 1 5

and pick them up in the

public static void main(String [] args) {
  // check args.length, 
  // if ok convert each String element to an int, 
  // bail out at first NumberFormatException
}

If not, then there is nothing wrong with an input loop that stops at first blank entry,
and re-prompts at invalid numerics. This would involve NumberFormatException
handling though.