I have an issue with accessing a method containing scanner class more than once when the variable that is closed.

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When I access a method containing Scanner class more than once (with Scanner class variable closed every time at the end of the method), i run into an issue. Here is the snippet of the code, I am having problems with: All I am trying to do is return the string and store it in a local variable in Main().

public static String setName() {
   System.out.println("Type in a person's name: ");
   Scanner scanName = new Scanner(System.in);
   String perName = scanName.nextLine();
   scanName.close();
   return perName;
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
   String someName;
   someName = setName();
   someName = setName();

On trying to call the

SetName()

function the second time, I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found
at java.util.Scanner.nextLine(Unknown Source)

What I have tried:

I tried to comment the

scanName.close();

in the SetName() method and the issue is resolved. But I have also tried calling the function and assigning it to a different String variable, which did not work either. I would like to know what went wrong.