how to read an input from the main method

[Pouncer]

at the top of my class i have
private static String SECRET_KEY = "";

how do i read a key and set it to SECRET_KEY?

if (SECRET_KEY == "") {
System.out.println("Please enter a secre key which both the client and server will share:");
}

[CornedBee]

Through System.in. You might want to wrap an InputStreamReader and a BufferedReader around it to read a single line of input.

[Pouncer]

Through System.in. You might want to wrap an InputStreamReader and a BufferedReader around it to read a single line of input.

Thanks bud. any chance you can give me an e.g

[CornedBee]

BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String line = r.readLine().trim();

Some stuff to import from java.io.

[Pouncer]

awesome thanks bud.

[Pouncer]

so i just simply do

SECRET_KEY = line;

?

[CornedBee]

Yeah, or you read directly into SECRET_KEY.