[jdk20] RFR: 8297288: Example code in Scanner class

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Sat Dec 10 08:18:01 UTC 2022


On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 18:32:37 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The example in `Scanner` directly uses `System.in` which may cause unwanted behavior when the default charset and the console charset differ. Using `Console.reader()` is more appropriate. Also changed examples into snippets.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Scanner.java line 58:

> 56:  *     var con = System.console();
> 57:  *     if (con != null) {
> 58:  *         Scanner sc = new Scanner(con.reader()); // @link substring="reader()" target="java.io.Console#reader()"

The link tag can be put on the previous line if you want. It just requires terminating it with a colon (":"). I've found that useful in a few places.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk20/pull/14


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