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		abhiyerra 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Public static void main(String[] args) is dead I learned to read line as the following in Java 1.2 so the Scanner class is new to me. :p `BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); String input = in.readLine();`

riffraff 18 days ago [–]

Yep, same for me, it's been a long time since I did java and while the publicstaticvoidmain mantra felt familiar I was a bit confused by the Scanner thing and couldn't say why.

sammyo 17 days ago | [–]

Same here, oddly pleased that the Scanner class is deprecated before I even knew about it.

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