Thread: How to take a char value in scanner

Hello,
Anyone know how can i take a character value from user in Scanner package? I've been trying by

char grades;
 
grades = console.next().charAt(0);

But it's giving me error.. So, i was wondering if anyone could help me out? Thank You!

You'll have to post more code than that, there's nothing wrong with what you've posted so far, though (assuming that console is an instance of Scanner)

As a side note, strangely enough, the Scanner class doesn't have a direct method for only reading in one character (you can kind of cheat using the Regex support of Scanner). You can read in a string of characters and only use the first one, but that can be quite cumbersome.

There are two options:
1. Use the BufferedReader class, or
2. Use a regex with the Scanner.

// read in one character using Scanner with regex
Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
reader.next(".").charAt(0); // allows any character
reader.next("\\d").charAt(0); // a digit
reader.next("\\D").charAt(0); // a non-digit
reader.next("\\S").charAt(0); // a non-whitespace character
reader.next("\\w").charAt(0); // a "word" character (letters and digits)