How to skip the '\n' char when reading with BufferedReader

Question

Hello to all the comunity that is at these forums, ;)
I'm a venezuelan IT student, and as many arround here, I'm looking for some help with this homework...
well the thing is that I need to read from the System.in untill I get the "" String. Well the initial idea was to make a BufferedReader object and put the br.readLine(); method inside a recursive method, like this:
   import java.io.*;
    public class P1_diccionary {
      String[] diccionario;
      int cont=0;
       void llenarDiccionario(String linea, String[] auxi)throws IOException{
         if(linea.compareTo("")!=0){
             int aux = cont++;
             diccionario = new String[cont];
             for(int i=0;i<auxi.length;i++)
                 diccionario=auxi[i];
diccionario[aux]=linea;
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
llenarDiccionario(reader.readLine(),diccionario);
well, I think this one it's a nice idea, however, it doesn't work for me because the input is going to be just like this:
word1: concept1...
word2: concept2...
word3: concept3...
word4: concept4...
and! it's going to be pasted on the console (that is "ctrl+c" then "ctrl+v")... that's the real problem that I have, the method that I did reads some lines not all of them, I think it's because there is no synchronization (guessing) between the ctrl+v and the execution of the program...
so I thought about skiping the '\n' char, to do this I checked the readLine() method of the BufferedReader and found out that it calls a
readLine(boolean ignoreLF)method and that ignoreLF and skipLF -boolean form the class- determine whether readLine() will skip the '\n' char or not:
boolean omitLF = ignoreLF || skipLF;ok now the question: how do I make ignoreLF or skipLF = true? I tried to look more in the BufferedReader class but I didn't see how to change the skipLF value...
well guess that's all, I'll really apriciate all of your help, and any other ideas that you might have to solve the problem...
well thanks to everybody and see ya ;)

Answer 1

Use read() instead of readLine(). This method will read characters, and does not treat the EOL charactger the same way. Just keep reading until you find a sequence of characters (two EOL sequences in a row) that matches your end condition. Just be careful, since different OSs have different EOL sequences ... \n, \n\r, or \r. Also, remember that you will have to deal with the EOL sequences. They will not be discarded automatically.
You can also use read( char[], int, int) to read as many characters as you want, without regard to EOL sequences. This will only stop reading when EOF is reached, or when the next read will cause the underlying stream to block, or when you have read a specified number of characters. Again, this will not terminate at a EOL sequence, and will include the EOL sequences in your array.
As far as readLine() is concerned, I think you want to stop when you have TWO successive reads that equal "".
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