Examples of straightforward Scanner methods to get data such as floats, doubles or text include: If those two advanced topics don’t intimidate the developer, then user input with Java’s Scanner class ...

In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read().

Notice how the output includes only the first String the Java Scanner read. The rest of the text is ignored. This is because the Scanner class tokenizes the input String based on any whitespace ...