Pausing the output stream?

Question

Ahh! Sorry bout that... stupid friend.
Anyway. I have a question. Is there a way to pause the output in a series of System.out.println commands?
Like I'm making a game with a friend and its all text based using the java console and... It would be very confusing if all this text popped up at once!
Something like...
System.out.println("Hello!")
//pauses
System.out.println("Nice to meet you!")
or perhaps a way to wait for the user to press a key to continue. That would actually be better :3
I tried searching in the java api but got lost XD. I'm new to java. thanks for reading and helping me if you can.
Edited by: Xanotros on Aug 2, 2008 11:46 AM

Answer 1

if you want to wait for user input you can use a method like this to pring to the console:
String printAndWait(String output) {
     System.out.println(output);
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
     try {
          return in.readLine();
     catch (Exception e) {
          return null;
}you can also try to get the current running thread and make it go to sleep, but i dont think that its a good idea.