what is a scanner in java code example

Example 1: java scanner

import java.util.Scanner;

// import scanner 

Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in); // Make scanner obj

String inputString = myScanner.nextLine(); // Take whole line

boolean inputBoolean = myScanner.nextBoolean(); //Boolean input

long inputLong = myScanner.nextLong(); //Interger,long ... input

Example 2: scanner in java

import java.util.Scanner;		//Import Scanner in java

class classname{
  public void methodname(){
    Scanner s_name = new Scanner(System.in);	//Scanner declaration
    //Use Scanner object to take input
    int val1    =  s_name.nextInt();			//int
    float val2  =  s_name.nextFloat();			//float
    double val3 =  s_name.nextDouble();			//double
    string name =  s_name.nextLine();			//string
    char ch     =  s_name.nextLine().charAt(0);	//character
  }}

Example 3: how to create a Scanner Object in java

Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);