[spicyB]

I am trying to use the Scanner to read input from the command line. I am unfamilier with the Scanner. How would I get something like "Scanner help" to be read as one single token?

[spicyB]

thanks

[JimmySeal]

I don't really understand the question. If the input were "Scanner help is good", how would you identify "Scanner help" as one token and "is" and "good" as individual tokens?

[spicyB]

The user would enter input like "Scanner help" "is" "good"
and then "Scanner help", "is", "good" would all be different tokens. THe user would enter their input with the " " around each different token

[JimmySeal]

When you say you want to get input from the command line, are you referring to the command line arguments, or input the program will read from the user while the program is running?
If it's the former, then the command line automatically divides up arguments based on quotation marks. So if I have this program:

public class test
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
                {
                        System.out.println(args[i]);
                }
        }
}

And then run

java test "hello dolly" "yoyo" "waawa"

Then the output will be

hello dolly
yoyo
waawa