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Hi, I'm making a text based game in the command prompt.

What would be a simple way to respond to a press of enter button.

Thanks for any help, much appreciated.
 
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You will probably use the System.in input stream so you will want to look at the following classes:
java.lang.System
java.io.InputStream
java.nio.InputStreamReader
java.io.BufferedReader

what I would do is wrap the System.in into a InputStreamReader, which I would then wrap in a BufferedReader eg

BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

then you can use BufferedReader's readLine() method to see when the user presses enter. Probably not as simple as you are looking for, but I think that is about as simple as it gets with the standard API
 
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Thanks, I tried:

Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
in.nextLine();

And this seems to work, I just donno if its the right way of doing things
 
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colin shuker wrote:Thanks, I tried:

Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
in.nextLine();

And this seems to work, I just donno if its the right way of doing things



It's the best way, imo.

And when you get started with swing, you wont care for it anyway.

 
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