The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e34. Reading Text from Standard Input

    try {
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String str = "";
        while (str != null) {
            System.out.print("> prompt ");
            str = in.readLine();
            process(str);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

Related Examples

e35. Reading Text from a File
e36. Reading a File into a Byte Array
e37. Writing to a File
e38. Appending to a File
e39. Using a Random Access File

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