Java equivalent of cin

[Gregory W. Ernest]

I am new to Java programming and I was wondering if anyone can tell me the
java equivalent to a cin>>...; that is normally used in c++. I want to get
user input and automatically assign it to a variable. So in other words what
would be the equivant java statement of this c++ statement:

1: cout<<"Enter a number.";
2: cin>>x; //This is what I really want to know. I already know the java
equivalent of the first statement.

[Wiseguy]

Re: Java equivalent of cin

"Gregory W. Ernest" <Gernest@optonl ine.net> wrote in
news:KR_Gd.7781 $Wz7.1210@fe10. lga:
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> I am new to Java programming and I was wondering if anyone can tell me
> the java equivalent to a cin>>...; that is normally used in c++. I
> want to get user input and automatically assign it to a variable. So
> in other words what would be the equivant java statement of this c++
> statement:
>
> 1: cout<<"Enter a number.";
> 2: cin>>x; //This is what I really want to know. I already know the
> java equivalent of the first statement.[/color]

Are you looking for something like?

byte [] b=new byte[255];
System.in.read( b);

I strongly recommend that you download the J2SDK HTML documentation and
put in on your machine. You then have the complete class heirarchy
reference available to view at will.




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[Sharp]

Re: Java equivalent of cin

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> > I am new to Java programming and I was wondering if anyone can tell me
> > the java equivalent to a cin>>...; that is normally used in c++. I
> > want to get user input and automatically assign it to a variable. So
> > in other words what would be the equivant java statement of this c++
> > statement:
> >
> > 1: cout<<"Enter a number.";
> > 2: cin>>x; //This is what I really want to know. I already know the
> > java equivalent of the first statement.[/color]
>
> Are you looking for something like?
>
> byte [] b=new byte[255];
> System.in.read( b);
>
> I strongly recommend that you download the J2SDK HTML documentation and
> put in on your machine. You then have the complete class heirarchy
> reference available to view at will.[/color]

That doesn't seem too efficient

Regards
Michael



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[Wiseguy]

Re: Java equivalent of cin

"Sharp" <Sharp@SharpAdd ress.com> wrote in news:YIBId.1298 30$K7.120029
@news-server.bigpond. net.au:
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>>
>> Are you looking for something like?
>>
>> byte [] b=new byte[255];
>> System.in.read( b);
>>
>> I strongly recommend that you download the J2SDK HTML documentation[/color][/color]
and[color=blue][color=green]
>> put in on your machine. You then have the complete class heirarchy
>> reference available to view at will.[/color]
>
> That doesn't seem too efficient[/color]

As opposed to what? Use of a fixed length buffer? explicit necessity to
type cast the result to some other type?...what then?

IMHO, streams under java are ugly to begin with.

[Randolf Richardson]

Re: Java equivalent of cin

"Wiseguy <noone@all.com> " wrote in comp.lang.java:
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> "Sharp" <Sharp@SharpAdd ress.com> wrote in news:YIBId.1298 30$K7.120029
> @news-server.bigpond. net.au:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Are you looking for something like?
>>>
>>> byte [] b=new byte[255];
>>> System.in.read( b);
>>>
>>> I strongly recommend that you download the J2SDK HTML documentation
>>> and put in on your machine. You then have the complete class
>>> heirarchy reference available to view at will.[/color]
>>
>> That doesn't seem too efficient[/color]
>
> As opposed to what? Use of a fixed length buffer? explicit necessity to
> type cast the result to some other type?...what then?[/color]

Perhaps "java.io.Buffer edReader" might address the efficiency concern?
I wonder if "Sharp" needs to read line-by-line.
[color=blue]
> IMHO, streams under java are ugly to begin with.[/color]

Streams aren't the only thing, but then again there are many ugly
things in many languages. I think Java's Generics are even uglier, but they
will prove to be very beneficial in the long run.

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