How can I read input from the console using the Scanner class in Java?

Question

How could I read input from the console using the Scanner class? Something like this:

System.out.println(\"Enter your username: \");
Scanner = i         


        

Answer 1

Reading Data From The Console

• BufferedReader is synchronized, so read operations on a BufferedReader can be safely done from multiple threads. The buffer size may be specified, or the default size(8192) may be used. The default is large enough for most purposes.

  readLine() « just reads data line by line from the stream or source. A line is considered to be terminated by any one these: \n, \r (or) \r\n

• Scanner breaks its input into tokens using a delimiter pattern, which by default matches whitespace(\s) and it is recognised by Character.isWhitespace.

  « Until the user enters data, the scanning operation may block, waiting for input. « Use Scanner(BUFFER_SIZE = 1024) if you want to parse a specific type of token from a stream. « A scanner however is not thread safe. It has to be externally synchronized.

  next() « Finds and returns the next complete token from this scanner. nextInt() « Scans the next token of the input as an int.

Code

String name = null;
int number;

java.io.BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
name = in.readLine(); // If the user has not entered anything, assume the default value.
number = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine()); // It reads only String,and we need to parse it.
System.out.println("Name " + name + "\t number " + number);

java.util.Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("\\s");
name = sc.next();  // It will not leave until the user enters data.
number = sc.nextInt(); // We can read specific data.
System.out.println("Name " + name + "\t number " + number);

// The Console class is not working in the IDE as expected.
java.io.Console cnsl = System.console();
if (cnsl != null) {
    // Read a line from the user input. The cursor blinks after the specified input.
    name = cnsl.readLine("Name: ");
    System.out.println("Name entered: " + name);
}

Inputs and outputs of Stream

Reader Input:     Output:
Yash 777          Line1 = Yash 777
     7            Line1 = 7

Scanner Input:    Output:
Yash 777          token1 = Yash
                  token2 = 777