Scanner

A class from java.util, and typically used to interact with user input

Initialization

Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in); // Gets keyboard input from standard ouput

Common Scanner Methods

Signature	Description	Return Type
nextInt()	Returns a integer scanned from the Scanner object	int
next()	Returns what the first scanned String` from the Scanner object	String
nextLine()	Returns the whole line scanned from the Scanner object	String

Tip

nextInt() does not take scan the new-line character from the InputStream. This will result with the next call of nextLine() to be the new-line character. A fix for this is to call nextLine() again, before the actual nextLine() is required