Input to file

Question

hey im a student working on an exersise and im wondering how to take keyboard input and write it to a file that can later be viewed. my "teacher" has not told us how to do this in class and its not in our textbook.
im a first semester student so my knowlege is limeted, the program will take info about an employee, name, id#. . . stuff like that and write it to a file that can later be viewed. i've pretty much got it all except the input from keyborad and write to file part. can someone give me a code example and maybe a brief explenation of what it does. im pretty sure im supposed to be using the scanner for input

Answer 1

The creators of your Java book (if you are using the same one I am... Java software solutions for AP* Computer Science by Lewis Loftus and Cocking) have created a file for Keyboard input. First you need to import it.
import cs1.Keyboard;
next you set up your main method and assign a variable to the information you need.
String Name; int SocialSecurityNumber;
the code you use to get the input from the user is something like this:
Name = Keyboard.readString();
SocialSecurityNumber = Keyboard.readInt();
there are others such as getDouble() getChar(); etc.
If you need to create multiple people, I would say make that into a new class. Then create new employees. Once you create the new class you can say like Bob.getSSN() (Or whatever you called it) to get the social security number. Do that with all of the employees then you are all set.
Of coarse this will only work during the durration of the program itself, if you are talking about holding the information for use after you close the program then I cannot help you there.