What's the Scala recipe for reading line by line from the standard input ? Something like the equivalent java code :
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ScannerTest {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
while(sc.hasNext()){
System.out.println(sc.nextLine());
}
}
}
The most straight-forward looking approach will just use readLine()
which is part of Predef
. however that is rather ugly as you need to check for eventual null value:
object ScannerTest {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
var ok = true
while (ok) {
val ln = readLine()
ok = ln != null
if (ok) println(ln)
}
}
}
this is so verbose, you'd rather use java.util.Scanner
instead.
I think a more pretty approach will use scala.io.Source
:
object ScannerTest {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
for (ln <- io.Source.stdin.getLines) println(ln)
}
}
For the console you can use Console.readLine
. You can write (if you want to stop on an empty line):
Iterator.continually(Console.readLine).takeWhile(_.nonEmpty).foreach(line => println("read " + line))
If you cat a file to generate the input you may need to stop on either null or empty using:
@inline def defined(line: String) = {
line != null && line.nonEmpty
}
Iterator.continually(Console.readLine).takeWhile(defined(_)).foreach(line => println("read " + line))
val input = Source.fromInputStream(System.in);
val lines = input.getLines.collect
Can you not use
var userinput = readInt // for integers
var userinput = readLine
...
As available here : Scaladoc API
A recursive version (the compiler detects a tail recursion for improved heap usage),
def read: Unit = {
val s = scala.io.StdIn.readLine()
println(s)
if (s.isEmpty) () else read
}
Note the use of io.StdIn
from Scala 2.11 . Also note with this approach we can accumulate user input in a collection that is eventually returned -- in addition to be printed out. Namely,
import annotation.tailrec
def read: Seq[String]= {
@tailrec
def reread(xs: Seq[String]): Seq[String] = {
val s = StdIn.readLine()
println(s)
if (s.isEmpty()) xs else reread(s +: xs)
}
reread(Seq[String]())
}