I am trying to ask the user for two ints separated by a space. I also want to store the two separated numbers into two integer variables. Please help it is so simple I am having a hard time finding a good source for it.
System.out.print("Please enter 2 integers (separated by spaces): ");
String numbers = kb.nextLine();
kb.useDelimiter(" ");
You can declare the Scanner to use the regex delimiter of \\s+ which will remove all whitespace, or \\s if you want to remove a single space, but throw an Exception for any other input (such as two spaces in a row).
Additionally, ensure you call this method before you attempt to use kb.next():
Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
kb.useDelimiter("\\s+");
System.out.print("Please enter 2 integers (separated by spaces): ");
int valueOne = kb.nextInt();
int valueTwo = kb.nextInt();
System.out.println("Output: " + valueOne + " " + valueTwo);
You then individually can grab each input using kb.nextInt(), calling it as many times as you need, depending on how many values you want.
I suggest if you need a lot of values you instead call this from a loop, and not keep rewriting it.
Trial Run:
Please enter 2 integers (separated by spaces): 5 6
Output: 5 6
Note that this will only take in integers and throw an InputMismatchException if you attempt to use anything else. You use kb.next() instead which will read a String if you want any value, then parse it into the type you need.
In place of useDelimiter, since you've already read the line, you could split on space and convert each of those values to ints:
System.out.print("Please enter 2 integers (separated by spaces): ");
Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
String numbers = kb.nextLine();
String[] values = numbers.split(" ");
for(String value: values)
{
System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(value));
}
Bear in mind that this will raise exceptions if non-numbers are provided as inputs.
