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shaggy ped
Courses Plus Student 547 PointsConsole I/O is not working in netbeans or eclipse ??
why Console I/O is not working in netbeans or eclipse ?? Showing error "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at applet_string.MyClass.main(MyClass.java:18) C:\Users\Sagar\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.1\executor- snippets\run.xml:53: Java returned: 1 BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds) "
3 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHi there.
The console object only becomes available when you run your java code via Console/command line interface; Eclipse, being a GUI IDE, has no Console environment.
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsJava gives you several means to take user input, such as Scanner class, BufferedReader ... among others.
Check out this popular StackOverflow thread for examples on how to user them. Cheers.
shaggy ped
Courses Plus Student 547 PointsThank You !!!!!
shaggy ped
Courses Plus Student 547 PointsThen how can i take user input in Eclipse IDE??