input stuff

[ryan headley]

I have always had a hard time with Input for a console program. What is the easy way to prompt someone for input and take that input from the keyboard??

[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]

Apu, prefers using the readline method, than read, as read requires you to supply an array for input, and this can cause other behavior that is really not necessary.
Gotta love the naming convention...

//java for user input
char input[] = new char[1025];
try
{
    System.out.print ("enter something here >>");
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader     (System.in));
 in.read(input, 0 ,1024);
String ls_input = new String (input);
System.out.println ("you entered " + ls_input);
System.out.print ("enter something again>>");

ls_input = in.readLine();
System.out.println ("again you entered " + ls_input);
}
catch(IOException ioe)
{
System.out.println ("sumtin bad happened");
}

[ryan headley]

seems like alot of folks are messing with input from the console.
Thanx for your help....
=)