How do you read arithmetic symbols using char

Question

I'm trying to program a simple calculator

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13942701/take-a-char-input-from-the-scanner

Answer 2

read the whole input as a string perhaps?

if you are wanting the user to input a whole expression that is how I would approach it (i.e user input: 6 * 6 =)

Answer 3

you could seperate the inputs and have the program store the symbol seperate to the numbers.

i.e
ask user for number. store as double/float
ask user for symbol. store as char/string
ask user for another number: store as double/ float.

then you could use if/else statements to select the correct symbol and perform the calculation on the numbers

Answer 4

I see that makes sense but what if I want to use if statements?

Answer 5

yeah I did but my Problem is that you see when getting data from the user using the scanner I don't know what to use to assign the data to symbol/operator

if wanted an integer from the user I would say num1 = console.nextInt()

what do I write for

char?