使用SCANNER读取用户输入的行

Question

I have a program that needs to read lines of input. It needs to be many lines at once. For example:

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As I enter my time machine or maybe not, I wonder whether free will exists? I wonder whether free will exists maybe not as I enter my time machine or.

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That all gets entered at one time by the user. I was trying to use .hasNextLine() method from Scanner class, but it is not returning false.... it waits for input again. Ive been looking around for a solution and it appears that .hasNextLine() waits for input, but i do not know what alternative to use. Any suggestions? The actual code looks like:

while(input.hasNextLine());
        {
            line += input.nextLine();
        }

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Perhaps you should use some sort of "stop" sequence meaning when the user enters a particular character sequence, it will break out the loop. It might look something like:

public static void main(String args[]){
    final String stopSequence = "/stop";
    final Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
    String input = reader.nextLine();
    while(!input.equalsIgnoreCase(stopSequence)){
        //process input
        input = reader.nextLine();
    }
}