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titaniumdecoy · Oct 29th, 2007, 10:53 PM

That is one way to read standard input. A better way is to use a Scanner:

Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

You can use the nextLine() method to read an entire line, or next() to read the next word, as well as a number of other methods such as readInt().

Oct 29th, 2007, 10:53 PM	#2
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 855 Rep Power: 3	Re: Buffered input? That is one way to read standard input. A better way is to use a Scanner: (Toggle Plain Text) Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); You can use the nextLine() method to read an entire line, or next() to read the next word, as well as a number of other methods such as readInt().