Constructors and command lines

Question

I would like to know how you allow command line input for a constructor created object.
For example, my patient class has a constructor that will create a patient with 5 parameters id, name, age, etc.....
public Patient(int d, String n, int a, int s, int x) {
               id = d;
               age = a;
               tl = s;
               name = n;
               timearv = x;
In my Clinic class I would like to allow a user to be able to enter details on the command line to create a patient......DON'T KNOW HOW!!!
below is what i've come up with, but of course it doesnt work.....any help would be appreciated.....
Clinic c = new Clinic();
               System.out.println("Add patient details");
               Patient x = new Patient(id, name, age, tl,timearv);

Answer 1

Normally you present the user with a form consisting of fields the user fills in. When the user is finished and presses an OK button you read the filled-in fields and convert them to the internal types you expect/need. This information is then used to create objects.
You can read about this in the Swing tutorial.
A simpler way is to read from the standard input like this,
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.io/ReadFromStdIn.html
You can convert the read Strings to numbers like this,
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.lang/ConvertNum.html