How do I use a Scanner method to read a character? I know how to use scan.nextInt to read an integer and scan.nextLine() etc, but what if I only want the user to enter a single character?
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Britlandishusing System.IO
public void Func()
{
using (TextReader tr = new StreamReader(@"c:\temp\text.txt")
{
int wChar;
do
{
wChar=tr.Read();
Console.Write(string.Format(" {0} ",Convert.ToChar(wChar)));
}
while (wChar != -1)
}
}import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class Test
{
public static void main(String[]args)
{
try
{
Scanner s=new Scanner(new File(args[0]));
System.out.printf("%c%n",s.nextLine().charAt(0));
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e)
{
System.err.printf("File not found, lol.%n");
System.exit(-1);
}
catch(NoSuchElementException e)
{
System.err.printf("File is empty, lol.%n");
System.exit(-1);
}
}
}
BritlandishScanner scan = new Scanner(whatever_you're_scanning_from);
Char ch;
String line = scan.nextLine();
if(line.length() != 1)
{
// If you want to give an error for having more than one char, put that code here
}
else
ch = line.charAt(0);Britlandish