console problem

[H. Ali]

hi

when we say something like this

Console c = System.console();
 String u = c.readLine("%s", "username: ");

well what's with the formatting???
we use formatting when we are printing something to the output!
why are we formatting what we are reading and how come that's possible!!!

[Tom Reilly]

This version of Console.readLine() does not format what it is reading. It formats a user prompt and then returns what the user entered. This is explained in the documentation.