Java readline from console

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Description

The Java BufferedReader readLine() method read a line of text. A line is considered to be terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.io.BufferedReader.readline() method.

public String readline()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

A String containing the contents of the line, not including any line-termination characters, or null if the end of the stream has been reached.

Exception

IOException − If an I/O error occurs.

Assumption

Assuming we have a text file example.txt, which has the following content.

This file will be used as an input for our example programs −

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Example - Using readLine() method

The following example shows the usage of Java BufferedReader readLine() method.

BufferedReaderDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.InputS

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