Data input error

Question

I am having a strange error I never had before. My program gives me the NumberFormatException every time, the matter what I type in. It seems to be trying to parse the text in the println instead of the actual input, because when I told it to print out "5", instead of "Enter X coordinate of target", it worked. I have used a similar code in the past and it worked fine.
My code is this:
global variables:
static double xTarg= 0.0, yTarg= 0.0;
in main method:
BufferedReader BR = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
try {
System.out.println("Enter X coordinate of target");
     xTarg = Double.parseDouble(BR.readLine());
     System.out.println("Enter Y coordinate of target");
yTarg = Double.parseDouble(BR.readLine());
     catch (NumberFormatException e)
          System.out.println("NumberFormatException has happened");
          System.exit(0);
     catch (IOException e)
          System.out.println("bad input");
          System.exit(0);
          }

Answer 1

I ran your code using JCreator and it works fine. Did you use a comma ',' or a dot '.' for the decimal point? Because that seems to make a difference...
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