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[Monali2312]

Hi All,
I am new to java and while surfing through forum i came to know about scanner in java1.6.I just wanted to know that whether scanner and inputstreamread er performs same function? Also is scanner available in 1.5 version of java


Thanks in advance

[r035198x]

Hi All,
I am new to java and while surfing through forum i came to know about scanner in java1.6.I just wanted to know that whether scanner and inputstreamread er performs same function? Also is scanner available in 1.5 version of java


Thanks in advance

Yep Scanner is available since 1.5.

You could say it gives similar output to that of the InputStream reader but they work differently. InputStreamRead er reads byte streams and gives them out as characters.
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