Java fetching input from keyboard

[willisoften]

    BufferedReader keyboard = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); 







   double rate = Double.valueOf(keyboard.readLine()).doubleValue();

 

 

 

This looks so clumsy I was wondering if there was a better way to do it?

 

I haven't really fetched all that much input from the keyboard as I had a package from the university which did it for me. This however looks like a lot of code compared to C.

[fuzzylizard]

Not really. Getting keyboard input from the command line in Java is a rather clumsy thing and setting up stream readers is really the only way of doing it. However, once you start doing GUI programming, things become a lot easier.

 

If you want a link detailing the different ways of doing I/O in java check this out:

 

 

http://www.fuzzylizard.com/articles/java-io.cfm

[willisoften]

Thanks,

I was just wondering -think I'll set up my own class for input then.

 

The one I got from the university doesn't work with Linux though it should so I was trying to do input myself.

 

Cheers

 

Will

 

Ps Thanks for the link too