java.util.Scanner is the best choice for this task.
From the documentation:
For example, this code allows a user to read a number from System.in:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); int i = sc.nextInt();
Two lines are all that you need to read an int. Do not underestimate how powerful Scanner is, though. For example, the following code will keep prompting for a number until one is given:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter a number: ");
while (!sc.hasNextInt()) {
System.out.println("A number, please?");
sc.next(); // discard next token, which isn't a valid int
}
int num = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println("Thank you! I received " + num);
That's all you have to write, and thanks to hasNextInt() you won't have to worry about any Integer.parseInt and NumberFormatException at all.
See also
- Java Tutorials/Essential Classes/Basic I/O/Scanning and Formatting
Related questions
- How do I keep a scanner from throwing exceptions when the wrong type is entered? (java)
- How to use Scanner to accept only valid int as input
Other examples
A Scanner can use as its source, among other things, a java.io.File, or a plain String.
Here's an example of using Scanner to tokenize a String and parse into numbers all at once:
Scanner sc = new Scanner("1,2,3,4").useDelimiter(",");
int sum = 0;
while (sc.hasNextInt()) {
sum += sc.nextInt();
}
System.out.println("Sum is " + sum); // prints "Sum is 10"
Here's a slightly more advanced use, using regular expressions:
Scanner sc = new Scanner("OhMyGoodnessHowAreYou?").useDelimiter("(?=[A-Z])");
while (sc.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(sc.next());
} // prints "Oh", "My", "Goodness", "How", "Are", "You?"
As you can see, Scanner is quite powerful! You should prefer it to StringTokenizer, which is now a legacy class.
See also
- Java Tutorials/Essential Classes/Regular expressions
- regular-expressions.info/Tutorial
Related questions
- Scanner vs. StringTokenizer vs. String.Split
java.util.Scanner is the best choice for this task.
From the documentation:
For example, this code allows a user to read a number from System.in:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); int i = sc.nextInt();
Two lines are all that you need to read an int. Do not underestimate how powerful Scanner is, though. For example, the following code will keep prompting for a number until one is given:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter a number: ");
while (!sc.hasNextInt()) {
System.out.println("A number, please?");
sc.next(); // discard next token, which isn't a valid int
}
int num = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println("Thank you! I received " + num);
That's all you have to write, and thanks to hasNextInt() you won't have to worry about any Integer.parseInt and NumberFormatException at all.
See also
- Java Tutorials/Essential Classes/Basic I/O/Scanning and Formatting
Related questions
- How do I keep a scanner from throwing exceptions when the wrong type is entered? (java)
- How to use Scanner to accept only valid int as input
Other examples
A Scanner can use as its source, among other things, a java.io.File, or a plain String.
Here's an example of using Scanner to tokenize a String and parse into numbers all at once:
Scanner sc = new Scanner("1,2,3,4").useDelimiter(",");
int sum = 0;
while (sc.hasNextInt()) {
sum += sc.nextInt();
}
System.out.println("Sum is " + sum); // prints "Sum is 10"
Here's a slightly more advanced use, using regular expressions:
Scanner sc = new Scanner("OhMyGoodnessHowAreYou?").useDelimiter("(?=[A-Z])");
while (sc.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(sc.next());
} // prints "Oh", "My", "Goodness", "How", "Are", "You?"
As you can see, Scanner is quite powerful! You should prefer it to StringTokenizer, which is now a legacy class.
See also
- Java Tutorials/Essential Classes/Regular expressions
- regular-expressions.info/Tutorial
Related questions
- Scanner vs. StringTokenizer vs. String.Split
Here's my entry, complete with fairly robust error handling and resource management:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
/**
* Simple demonstration of a reader
*
* @author jasonmp85
*
*/
public class ReaderClass {
/**
* Reads two integers from standard in and prints their sum
*
* @param args
* unused
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// System.in is standard in. It's an InputStream, which means
// the methods on it all deal with reading bytes. We want
// to read characters, so we'll wrap it in an
// InputStreamReader, which can read characters into a buffer
InputStreamReader isReader = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
// but even that's not good enough. BufferedReader will
// buffer the input so we can read line-by-line, freeing
// us from manually getting each character and having
// to deal with things like backspace, etc.
// It wraps our InputStreamReader
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(isReader);
try {
System.out.println("Please enter a number:");
int firstInt = readInt(reader);
System.out.println("Please enter a second number:");
int secondInt = readInt(reader);
// printf uses a format string to print values
System.out.printf("%d + %d = %d",
firstInt, secondInt, firstInt + secondInt);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// IOException is thrown if a reader error occurs
System.err.println("An error occurred reading from the reader, "
+ ioe);
// exit with a non-zero status to signal failure
System.exit(-1);
} finally {
try {
// the finally block gives us a place to ensure that
// we clean up all our resources, namely our reader
reader.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// but even that might throw an error
System.err.println("An error occurred closing the reader, "
+ ioe);
System.exit(-1);
}
}
}
private static int readInt(BufferedReader reader) throws IOException {
while (true) {
try {
// Integer.parseInt turns a string into an int
return Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine());
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
// but it throws an exception if the String doesn't look
// like any integer it recognizes
System.out.println("That's not a number! Try again.");
}
}
}
}
You can use java.util.Scanner (API):
import java.util.Scanner;
//...
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
int num = in.nextInt();
It can also tokenize input with regular expression, etc. The API has examples and there are many others in this site (e.g. How do I keep a scanner from throwing exceptions when the wrong type is entered?).
If you are using Java 6, you can use the following oneliner to read an integer from console:
int n = Integer.parseInt(System.console().readLine());
Well, ints are also doubles so if you assume that everything is a double you will be OK with your logic. Like this:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
double choice = input.nextDouble();
It only get complex if you needed the input to be an integer for whatever reason. And then, parseInt() to test for int would be just fine.
Just use a double no matter what it is. There is no noticeable loss on using a double for integral values.
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
double choice = input.nextDouble();
Then, if you need to know whether you've gotten a double or not, you can check it using Math.floor:
if (choice == Math.floor(choice)) {
int choiceInt = (int) choice);
// treat it as an int
}
Don't mess with catching NumberFormatException, don't search the string for a period (which might not even be correct, for example if the input is 1e-3 it's a double (0.001) but doesn't have a period. Just parse it as a double and move on.
Also, don't forget that both nextInt() and nextDouble() do not capture the newline, so you need to capture it with a nextLine() after using them.
You should use
try{
int age = Integer.parseInt(console.readLine("Enter your age: "));
// do stuff
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
// User did not enter a number
}
Java doesn't cast between the two automatically. The above method however will throw an exception when you don't enter a number which you will have to handle
You can use
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
int Age = input.nextInt();
input.nextLine();