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abalfazl hossein
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What is the advantage of usage BufferedReader vs scanner while reading from keyboard?
Campbell Ritchie
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abalfazl hossein wrote: . . . What is the advantage of usage BufferedReader vs scanner while reading from keyboard?
None. But it's Scanner not scanner.
Ashish Schottky
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There is no advantage of using Scanner against BufferedReader,but it makes reading from keyboard easier in terms of programing.
In BufferedReader, one has to take input in terms of String and then parse it into required data-type, this can be avoided using Scanner can easily take inputs without conversions.
But its not an advantage, it just makes life of programmer simpler.
Campbell Ritchie
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I think that is an advantage of using Scanner vs BufferedReader.
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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