reading text character by character

I use following code to read a line from console.

Code:

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BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String readLine = br.readLine();

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How can I read text character by character?

Regards.

Code:

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BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in), 1);

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This gives the buffered reader a 1 byte buffer.

BufferedReader (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2))

Thanks. It helps.