In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read().

Introduced in Java 6, Java’s System Console class provides two simple methods ... Java Console-based user input and output won’t be a problem.

Java programs without a ... they will take up the same space in the output line. Outputting a formatted segment of text is simple -- rather than using "System.out.print()," use "System.out.format()." ...

Notice how the output includes only the first String the Java Scanner read. The rest of the text is ignored. This is because the Scanner class tokenizes the input String based on any whitespace ...