Take a char input from the Scanner

Question

I am trying to find a way to take a char input from the keyboard.

I tried using:

Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
char c = reade         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way is, first change the variable to a String and accept the input as a string. Then you can control based on the input variable with an if-else or switch statement as follows.

Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);

String c = reader.nextLine();
switch (c) {
    case "a":
        
        break;
    case "b":
        
        break;
    default: 
        
}