{"id":9720,"date":"2022-09-20T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accept-arbitrary-multi-line-input-of-string-type-and-store-it-in-a-variable\/"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T04:48:06","slug":"solved-accept-arbitrary-multi-line-input-of-string-type-and-store-it-in-a-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accept-arbitrary-multi-line-input-of-string-type-and-store-it-in-a-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-50974646\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"50974646\" data-parentid=\"50971442\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>From what I gather, you&#8217;re trying to get input from a user until that user types <code>-1<\/code>. If thats the case, please see my function below.<\/p>\n<pre><code>public static void main (String[] args)\n{\n    \/\/ Scanner is used for I\/O\n    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);\n\n    \/\/ Prompt user to enter text\n    System.out.println(\"Enter something \");\n\n    \/\/ Get input from scanner by using next()\n    String text = input.next();\n\n    \/\/ this variable is used to store all previous entries\n    String storage = \"\";\n\n        \/\/ While the user does not enter -1, keep receiving input\n        \/\/ Store user text into a running total variable (storage)\n        while (!text.equals(\"-1\")) {\n            System.out.println(\"You entered: \" + text);\n            text = input.next();\n            storage = storage + \"\\n\" + text\n    }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;ve left comments in that code block but I&#8217;ll reiterate it here. First we declare our I\/O object so that we can get input from the keyboard. We then ask the user to <code>\"Enter something\"<\/code> and wait for the user to enter something. This process is repeated in the while loop <b>until<\/b> the user specifically types <code>-1<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] From what I gather, you&#8217;re trying to get input from a user until that user types -1. If thats the case, please see my function below. public static void main (String[] args) { \/\/ Scanner is used for I\/O Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); \/\/ Prompt user to enter text System.out.println(&#8220;Enter something &#8220;); \/\/ &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accept-arbitrary-multi-line-input-of-string-type-and-store-it-in-a-variable\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[1148,323,640,349],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-input","tag-java","tag-java-util-scanner","tag-python"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accept-arbitrary-multi-line-input-of-string-type-and-store-it-in-a-variable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Accept arbitrary multi-line input of String type and store it in a variable - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] From what I gather, you&#8217;re trying to get input from a user until that user types -1. 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