how to keep on the same line. Help needed.

[derb2k2]

hello everyone. I would like to know how I can have a string appear on the same line after the program is run. i.e. after the user enters "hours", i want the text hours to appear next to it on the same line and not the next. sorry if I didnt' post this correctly.


public static void main (String[] args)
{
int hours, mins, secs, totalsecs;

Scanner inhours = new Scanner (System.in);
Scanner inmins = new Scanner (System.in);
Scanner insecs = new Scanner (System.in);

System.out.print ("Please enter the number of hours: ");

hours = inhours.nextInt(); System.out.print ("hours.");
System.out.println ();
mins = inmins.nextInt(); System.out.print ("minutes.");
System.out.println ();
secs = insecs.nextInt(); System.out.print ("seconds.");
System.out.println ();
System.out.println ();


int HOURS = hours * 3600;
int MINS = mins * 60;
int SECS = secs * 1;

totalsecs = HOURS + MINS + SECS;

System.out.println ("You entered " + hours + " hours," + mins + " minutes,"
+ secs + " seconds.");

System.out.println ("The given amount of time translates to "
+ totalsecs + " seconds.");
}
}

[Dark]

As far as I know, you can't. Certainly putting the code on the same line isn't going to accomplish it. Very interesting attempt though.

You have to hit enter to submit the information to the program, thus causing a newline. That's why most people do a print statement beforehand doing something like Hours: instead.

[derb2k2]

As far as I know, you can't. Certainly putting the code on the same line isn't going to accomplish it. Very interesting attempt though.

You have to hit enter to submit the information to the program, thus causing a newline. That's why most people do a print statement beforehand doing something like Hours: instead.

hrmm, that sounds good actually. Thank you. Kinda weird that there isn't a command to help with that either way. But then again im newb lol

[kjkrum]

Java's support for console I/O is extremely poor. I revisited this issue recently, thinking that the newish java.io.Console allowed reading single characters instead of whole lines. Nope... not on the JRE I'm using, anyway.