Skipping Blank Lines in text File

Question

I am working on an assignment in which i have to read from a text file and store the strings individually. The problem i have is that the text file has blank line between each set of strings. So i figured to use "fin.nextLine();" to skip that blank line and continue with storing the values. but i get
"Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found
     at java.util.Scanner.nextLine(Unknown Source)
     at processmsg.ProcessMessages.choice1(ProcessMessages.java:68)
     at processmsg.ProcessMessages.main(ProcessMessages.java:25)"
which is where the fin.nexLine() is at. How can i just skip that blank line?
System.out.println("Please enter the file location");
          Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
          String fileName = stdin.nextLine();
          // read the information from the file
          try {
               Scanner fin = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
               String tSendName = fin.nextLine();
               while(tSendName != null)
                    String tRecieveName = fin.nextLine();
                    String tPhoneNumber = fin.nextLine();
                    String tDate = fin.nextLine();
                    String tTime = fin.nextLine();
                    String tStatus = fin.nextLine();
                    String tMessage = fin.nextLine();
                    PhoneMessage phonemessage = new PhoneMessage(tSendName, tRecieveName,
                              tPhoneNumber, tDate, tTime, tStatus, tMessage);
                    fin.nextLine();
                    tSendName = fin.nextLine();

Answer 1

don't know if you want the whole code, the whole code is kind of large and spread out over 3 different classes. and yes the text file is standard
sender
reciever
phone number
date
time
status
message
sender
reciever
phone number
date
time
status
message
sender
reciever
phone number
date
time
status
message
private static void choice()
          // scan the file location from the user
          System.out.println("Please enter the file location");
          Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
          String fileName = stdin.nextLine();
          // read the information from the file
          try {
               Scanner fin = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
               String tSendName = fin.nextLine();
               while(tSendName != null)
                    String tRecieveName = fin.next();
                    String tPhoneNumber = fin.next();
                    String tDate = fin.nextLine();
                    String tTime = fin.nextLine();
                    String tStatus = fin.nextLine();
                    String tMessage = fin.nextLine();
                    PhoneMessage phonemessage = new PhoneMessage(tSendName, tRecieveName,
                              tPhoneNumber, tDate, tTime, tStatus, tMessage);
                    // skip blank line between entries
                    fin.nextLine();
                    // test date string for correct format
                    int month = Integer.parseInt(tDate.substring(0,2));
                    int day = Integer.parseInt(tDate.substring(3,5));
                    int year = Integer.parseInt(tDate.substring(6,10));
                    // test time string for correct format
                    int hour = Integer.parseInt(tTime.substring(0,2));
                    int minute = Integer.parseInt(tTime.substring(3,5));
                    int second = Integer.parseInt(tTime.substring(6,8));
                    tSendName = fin.nextLine();
                    msgList.add(phonemessage);
               fin.close();
          } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
               System.out.println("The file " + fileName + " was not found!");
          } catch (java.lang.NumberFormatException e) {
               System.out.println("The date and/or time is not of the correct format");
     }