



Scanner and nextChar() in Java


Scanner class in Java supports nextInt(), nextLong(), nextDouble() etc.  But there is no nextChar() (See this for examples)
To read a char, we use next().charAt(0). next() function returns the next token/word in the input as a string and charAt(0) function returns the first character in that string.







 


 

 













// Java program to read character using Scanner  
// class 
import java.util.Scanner; 
public class ScannerDemo1 
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
        // Declare the object and initialize with 
        // predefined standard input object 
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); 
   
        // Character input 
        char c = sc.next().charAt(0); 
   
        // Print the read value 
        System.out.println("c = "+c); 
    } 
}


















Input : 
g
Output : 
c = g
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