Scanner class

[claude]

Hi, got a question about Scanner class that comes with java sdk 1.5.

Scanner getin=New Scanner(System.in);

String text=""

text=getin.next();

getin.next() takes only complete word, but how can i take separate words to
readed in text variable. If i enter "New York" this scanner .next() cant take it.

Thanks.

[wildfrog]

What do you use as delimiter? If you press enter between each 'city name', then maybe you can use Scanner.nextLine().

- petter

[claude]

I ended up using Scanner class, and created new object only for .nextLine() method,
maybe not best solutionbut now i dont need to worry about jumping over lines.

By the way whats real usage of this nextLine() method doesn't seem to be very handy to use. Why to jump over lines that way

[Joe Nellis]

Normally, a scanner is the first part of a compiling system. It is meant to be used to parse a document into tokens that a compiler might interpret. I have found this class to be very useful on occasions. You probably didn't play with the match method which allows you to apply regular expressions to the current line. That is its most valuable function I think. If you are only parsing the beginning of a line then the nextLine is an easy way skip past the remaining line.