read string and int from console

[cherrychives]

So I really have no idea how to use the System.in thing..

How can it be used so that when this is typed into the console:

java myClass hello 20

.."hello" and 20 are stored as a string and an int?

I've tried a number of ways, but I just can't figure out how System.in works.

Thanks in advance.

[eRaaaa]

Why do you want to use System.in?
"java myClass hello 20" looks to me more like system/command-line arguments!
hello and 20 will be passed to the main method (the string array), if you want the 20 as integer, you could use the Integer.parseInt method!
Please read: Command-Line Arguments (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes > The Platform Environment)

[wsaryada]

When you do:

java MyClass hello 20

You'll pass the hello and 20 as parameters to your MyClass main() method. Where in method this parameters will be accepted as an array of String. You can see this in the main() method signature of your MyClass.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    ...
    String hello = args[0]; // give you "hello"
    String number = args[1]; // give you 20
    ...
}

[JosAH]

"hello" and "20" are both command line arguments and they are both Strings and they have nothing to do with the System.in object. Read the tutorials on IO for input streams and friends.

kind regards,

Jos

[cherrychives]

Our lecturer was telling us about System.in some time ago so I thought it would apply here as well. Didn't know about using args.

Thanks guys!

[Wnt2bsleepin]

Our lecturer was telling us about System.in some time ago so I thought it would apply here as well. Didn't know about using args.

Thanks guys!

You would use System.in for interactive input mainly. Read up on it as recommended above.