exception handling - Java InputMismatchException

Question

I have this code and I want to catch the letter exception but it keeps having these errors:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException
    at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:840)
    at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1461)
    at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2091)
    at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2050)
    at exercise_one.Exercise.main(Exercise.java:17)

And here is my code:

 System.out.print("Enter the number of students: ");

 students = input.nextInt(); 

 while (students <= 0) {

     try {

        System.out.print("Enter the number of students: ");

        students = input.nextInt();

     }

     catch (InputMismatchException e) {

        System.out.print("Enter the number of students");

     }
 }    

Answer 1

You can use a do-while loop instead to eliminate the first input.nextInt().

do {
    try {
        System.out.print("Enter the number of students: ");
        students = input.nextInt();
    } catch (InputMismatchException e) {
        System.out.print("Invalid number of students. ");
    }
    input.nextLine(); // clears the buffer
} while (students <= 0);

Therefore all InputMismatchException can be handled in one place.