I have previously blogged on how Groovy and ActionScript provide demonstrations of switching on Strings functionality that has not been available in Java ... while an “int” was “required.” ...

The flag most typically used with a Java String printf statement is the negative sign, which left-aligns the text. The width specifier is an integer that specifies how many spaces should be dedicated ...

Java’s Scanner class can read input from the command line and return it as a String, BigDecimal or any one of Java’s eight primitive types. For the most part, Java’s Scanner class is fairly easy to ...