Hey everyone. I am in real trouble.. I am new to java and realy need some help. I am writing a program with user input. I understand that (char)System.in.read(); will just give me the first character of my users respoonse, but i need to be able to read a double amount. I need it to be able to read money to the nearest penny, and i have no idea how to make java read the rest of my users response instead of only the first character. Please if someone knows a way to do this, and i know there must be a way, let me know. Thank you very much.

Sounds like you want to read a string from the console not just a char. Here's an example; public class ReadConsole { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String s = null; String prompt = ">> "; BufferedReader inData = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print(prompt); while ((s = inData.readLine()) != null && !s.toUpperCase().equals("EXIT")) { System.out.println("You entered : " + s); System.out.print(prompt); } } catch (Exception e){ System.out.println(e); } System.exit(0); } }

Thank you mate!!! worked great. I cast the string to a double and there were no problems. once again thank you