Re: Inserting Multiple Lines from Console

From:
lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk">
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:21:21 +0100
Message-ID:
<3tidnSQT5OPpff_MnZ2dnUVZ7tudnZ2d@bt.com>
On 08/04/13 14:59, subhabangalore@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Group,

I was trying to get input of different nature of string, int etc.

To insert multiple lines I can do sort of standard coding like,

public class BRReadLines {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
    {
       // Create a BufferedReader using System.in
       BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
                               InputStreamReader(System.in));
       String str;
       System.out.println("Enter lines of text.");
       System.out.println("Enter 'end' to quit.");
       do {
          str = br.readLine();
          System.out.println(str);
       } while(!str.equals("end"));
    }
}

I may assign string and int also. But I was looking to assign different variable names like,
    String str;
    int In;
    .....
    and read from console.

Initially I did
str=br.readLine()
and
In=br.read()

but did not help much,
then I am trying like,

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

str=br.readLine();
In=br1.read();

It is generally going okay but when the output is being generated I am getting arbitrary output.

If anyone can kindly suggest how may I improve it?

Regards,
Subhabrata.


It *sounds* like what you are looking for is something like the C scanf
function, there is an oldish component here http://www.braju.com/beta/
but you may be able to find newer and better ones on the www
Alternatively java.util.Scanner might do it for you or you could write
your own implemention of scanf for Java using StringTokenizer

lipska

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