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Re: Stumped by simple input

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Nov 1 19:21:30 1995

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:09:10 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: dkumar@blackcat.brynmawr.edu
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM


Hi Deepak,

> I have been stumped by a simple "how to" in Java. How does one read
> a number (be it a integer or a float) from keyboard in a stand alone java
> program?

Try:

	DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(System.in);
	String ln = in.readLine();
	float f = Float.valueOf(ln).floatValue();

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff
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