Reading Input from the Console

Quickly capture user input from the console in your Java applications using the Scanner class.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ConsoleInput {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter a number: ");
        int number = scanner.nextInt();
        System.out.println("You entered: " + number);
        scanner.close();
    }
}