Read line and a byte from console as user input in Java

Description

The following code shows how to read line and a byte from console as user input.

Example


//w w w .  jav  a  2  s .c  om
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] a) throws Exception {
    System.out.print("Type some characters and press Enter: ");
    BufferedReader bisr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    String response = bisr.readLine();
    System.out.println("You typed: '" + response + "'");
    System.out.print("Type one character and press Enter: ");
    byte b = (byte) System.in.read();
    System.out.println("First byte of your input is: " + b);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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