Press enter to continue oddities (Java) -

i'm using code output text , have user press enter show next line of dialog. however, 1 press of enter shows 2 lines of text. why this?

public void pressentertocontinue() {     try {         system.in.read();     } catch(exception e) { } } 

for reference, method called this:

pressentertocontinue(); system.out.println("this line of text."); pressentertocontinue(); system.out.println("so this."); pressentertocontinue(); system.out.println("and this."); //etc. 

the first line displays alone "this line of text." method waits until user presses enter, displays next 2 lines ("so this." , "and this.") when should display one.

i did try implementing short delay didn't solve issue.

system.in.read() reads 1 byte. guess running code on platform newline represented 2 byte cr lf sequence, pressing enter key satisfies first system.in.read() call cr, , second system.in.read() call lf. changing code use system.console().readline() instead should fix this, check out discussion , other approaches described here, , solutions discussed here well.

and here's link info how newline represented on variety of platforms.