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"Myke" <myke@net2000.com.au> wrote in message
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> All I want to do is ask a user for text input at the command line.

For that, you need to wrap a BufferedReader around System.in . Now system.in
reads raw bytes, not characters (remember, characters in java are 2-byte
unicode values), so you need to wrap system.in in a InputStreamReader first.
This means that if a person is in Japan and types in JIS keyboard escape
codes, the reader will correctly convert to japanese unicode characters.
Enter a period on a line by itself to exit the loop.

import java.io.*;

public class go {
 public static void main(String[] av) throws IOException {
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

  String ln;
  do {
   ln = br.readLine();
   System.out.println(">>>" + ln + "<<<");
  } while(!".".equals(ln));
 }
}

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