How should I read from a buffered reader?

Question

I have the following example of reading from a buffered reader:

while ((inputLine = input.readLine()) != null) {
   System.out.println(\"I got a message from         


        

Answer 1

But I do not understand how it works. .... waits until something appears in the buffered reader and when something appears there it returns true

No, it returns the value of the expression (inputLine = input.readLine()), the inputLine itself. The inputLine is compared to null.