What is the Difference between Scanner class and BufferReader class ?

Question

both the classes are used to take input from user but when to prefer Scanner or BufferedReader ? and why ?

Answer 1

BufferReader only reads the input, while Scanner both reads and parses the input.

In case if someone reading this doesn't know what parsing means,

BufferReader could only read a ' String ' from a file or user input, whereas Scanner can read ' Strings ' and also other primitive data types like int, float, short, long, double, etc. This procedure is called parsing the data types.

and by the way, that's a very good question :)

Answer 2

Thnx Snehith ...its really helpfull

Answer 3

yep