integer value read from System.in is not the value typed

Question

I am a newbie to Java, and as an exercise wanted to WAP a simple program to print required no. of \'*\' characters according to the user. But somehow, the output of this cod

Answer 1

Because you are reading ASCII code of the character from input here:

no_stars = (int)System.in.read();

It should be

no_stars = Integer.parseInt(Console.readLine());