what's java.util.Scanner in Debian's java?

[lugoteehalt]

Got book on Java programing and it is always using:

import java.util.Scanner;

There is no Scanner thing in the debian .jar thing, have looked.

So what do I use instead? It is something for reading stuff in from the keyboard. Thanks any help.

[techieMoe]

It's possible that the version of Java you're using in Debian is 1.4.2 or below. The Scanner class was only added in Java 1.5. I've never used it, but from what I can tell it just breaks up a string into tokens. For that purpose I generally use StringTokenizer. For information on it, see the Java 1.4.2 API:

Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2