Reading an "int" from a keyboard

[Abder-Rahman Ali]

How canI read an "int" value from a keyboard, such that I want after that compare if the entered "int" is what I want?

For example, if I want the user to enter the int value "1", and after that I want to make a switch statement to check if the entered integer is "1" or not?

Thanks.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Easiest way after Java5 is to create a Scanner object using System.in as a constructor argument and use its nextInt() method.

[Norm Radder]

You enter char values from a keyboard. The "1" key will pass a char '1' to your input code. A char takes 2 bytes(as Unicode) to store its value. In ASCII it took just one byte. Looking at its value in different ways: the char "1"'s value is 00110001 in binary, 0x31 in hex, and 49 as int. Those are 3 different ways of looking at the same value in memory.

If you cast a char to int you will see this.
It is not easy to enter an int value of 1 via a keyboard.