I am getting a NullPointerException on the 5th line. I am not really sure why or how to fix it...
public static Scanner getInputScanner(Scanner console){
Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(System.in);
Scanner file = null;
String userInputFile = null;
while (file.equals(null)) {
try {
System.out.print("Enter input file: ");
userInputFile = inputFile.nextLine();
file = new Scanner(new File(userInputFile));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.print(userInputFile + " (No such file or directory)");
file = null;
return file;
}
}
return file;
}
Any pointers?
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