Help with Scanner Class

[torrinment]

I need to find a way to take in either a char or a string using scanner class.
Could someone help me with how to do it

[nspils]

The "tokenized" object(s) in a scanner are strings. You take in the next token by using next() ... If you want to use the string a char at a time, use the string methods to accomplish this.

[elix]

Scanner reader = new Scanner(new File("filename.txt"));
StringTokenizer wordsInLine=new StringTokenizer(reader.nextLine()); //this returns a line
String word=wordsInLine.nextToken(); //this returns a word in the line

[nspils]

Why would you use a StringTokenizer in this? Just use something like this (using as an example, a prior question in another thread):

Scanner reader = new Scanner(new File( "filename.txt" )).useDelimiter( "\n");

Scanner currentLine;

while (reader.hasNext())
{
     currentLine = new Scanner(reader.next());
     price = currentLine.nextFloat();
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
     while (currentLine.hasNext())
     {
           sb.add(currentLine.next() );
     }
     item = sb.toString();

}

This will break the file into line sized tokens, first. Then you take each line, create a scanner object now using whitespace (the default delimiter for Scanner objects) to tokenize the line. Assign the first token to the float price, then read the remaining tokens into a StringBuilder object, assign it to the string item by then doing a toString() of the stringbuilder object.

If you want to read a char, you need to do

char c = '';

for( int i = 0; i < item.length(); ++i )
{
       c = item.charAt(i);
       .....
       do what you're going to do with the char;
       .....
}