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I use the OS's command prompt window.

Interesting. I don't know what use typing characters on the console is.
The useful part is that what is typed on the console can be read into the program and used by the program.

I'm not sure what you mean by "type stuff". When I open a command prompt window, I am able to type stuff into the window. It has nothing to do with java or using the Scanner class.

Using the...

Did you read the API doc for the nextLine() method to see what it does? It is a method that returns a String.


Are you talking about what appears on the console window when you type something...

The code posted here on the forum are real life examples of the usage of that method.

If you have any questions about the code you have found and can not get it to compile and execute for testing,...

Do a search here on the forum. There are lots of programs that use that method.

That statement shows a object reference: scanner being used to call a method: nextLine().
To see what that method does, read the API doc for the scanner class.
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