Please Help my teachers suck!!! - keyboard input-

all i want to do is to simply read in character input from the keyboard

i have been told to use some thing like

String MyString = "";

inputstream isr = new inputstream(system.in);
Bufferreader br = new bufferreader(isr);

system.out.print("please enter a number");

MyString= readline

Please help i understand this is only half of it and i know this code is very wrong, but i need to use programming lines simular to this else i will fail :( :( :(

Thank you

James

.. except for quite a few spelling errors... :) Note the places where I have
used uppercases.

Code:

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String MyString = "";

InputStream isr = new InputStream(System.in);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);

System.out.print("please enter a number");

myString= br.readLine();
int myInt;
// if this is going to be a number then check that this really is a number
// for this example I'm checking for an integer (no decimals)
try {
  myInt=Integer.parseInt(myString);
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
  System.err.println(myString+" is not a valid integer");
}

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thank you so so much ... you are a life saver

James