what are the benefits of BufferedReader over Scanner

Question

here\'s a code about depth first search in graphs. who knows why bufferedReader class were used in this code? and why nextInt function not used instead? what is its privileg

Answer 1

Probably, when this code was written, the Scanner class didn't exist (in fact java 1.4 did not have the Scanner class), or maybe who written this code simply preferred using BufferedReader's readLine method instead of using Scanner.nextLine() method, i can't see other explainations about your question