Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The easiest way to garner user input in a Java program is to use the System’s Console class.

This is a simple console-based calculator developed using Java. It performs basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with user input via the Scanner class. Completed ...

When running a Java program in Eclipse IDE that uses Scanner.nextLine() for user input, the console fails to reposition the input cursor correctly after an exception or invalid input. Even though the ...

However, escape sequences are not very portable. For example, Windows NT provides an ANSI.SYS driver, but only for legacy DOS applications (which a JVM is not). I do not recommend this option except ...