Java BufferedInputStream read from console
import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class Main { public static String readLine() { StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder(); try {//from www .j av a 2 s . c o m BufferedInputStream bin = new BufferedInputStream(System.in); int in = 0; char inChar; do { in = bin.read(); inChar = (char) in; if (in != -1) { response.append(inChar); } } while ((in != -1) & (inChar != '\n')); bin.close(); return response.toString(); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage()); return null; } } public static void main(String[] arguments) { String input = readLine(); System.out.println(input); } }