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 ...

The Console’s readPassword() method performs the same function as readLine(), with the following two exceptions:. readPassword() does not echo text back while the user types readPassword() encrypts ...

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, ...