Hi folks,

I'm writing a simple program to prompt the user at the console and read
the line of data items entered. The data will consist of
space-separated items of type int and String like this:

1233 "some text" "more text"

I want to read a line of data at a time and then extract the elements
with the DataInputStream methods readInt(), readUTF(), etc.

My program seems to hang waiting on the DataInputStream.readUTF() call.
I can call every other DataInputStream method just fine, such as
readInt(), readLong(), etc.

Actually, when I change the program to read one item at a time I get
the same behavior. I can read everything fine except the strings. The
readUTF() call hangs.

Here is the basic loop of the program.

 ...
 int uid = 0;
 boolean online = false;
 String username = null;
 String email = null;
 String message = null;

 public void run()
 {
   DataInput dataInput = new DataInputStream(System.in);

   while (true)
     {
    System.out.println("Enter record to insert in database...");
    System.out.println("<uid> <username> <email> <online ?> <msg>...");
    System.out.print("? ");

    try
     {
       uid = dataInput.readInt();
        username = dataInput.readUTF();
         email = dataInput.readUTF();
        online = dataInput.readBoolean();
        message = dataInput.readUTF();
     }
    catch (EOFException eof)
     {
       // Reached end of input.
       System.out.println(eof.getMessage());
       break;
     }
    catch (UTFDataFormatException dfe)
     {
       System.out.println(dfe.getMessage());
       break;
     }
    catch (IOException ioe)
     {
       System.out.println(ioe.getMessage());
       break;
     }

    outputData(output);
     }
 }