In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read ...

showConfirmDialog(); showMessageDialog(); and showOptionDialog(). JOptionPane import and methods. For example, the following Java class uses JOptionPane’s showInputDialog() method to prompt for user ...

Notice that the code has a check for the newline character, as this will be treated as an input character if not filtered out. How to read the next char with Java’s Scanner. To summarize the process, ...