Analog input giving strange values when a simple wire is plugged

Waza_be:
Thank a lot!

Googling " 'floating input pin'" and wikipedia gives me really a lot of great information.

I guess I need to learn how to activate the internal pull up resistor, because I don't want to add resistors on every input!

Will read a lot, thanks for the hint

Well I would ask why would you want to read a pin that has nothing wired to it in your sketch? Floating input pins are not a problem if you are not using those pins for anything useful.

Lefty