Advantage of using a Scanner object or BufferedReader object

Question

I often keep making menu-driven programs for which the User requires to enter his choice many times.

That's why , I wanna know- What edge does a 'Scanner' object provides over a 'BufferedReader' object or vice-versa?

and **How to take mutliple inputs using a 'BufferedReader' object ?(without using loops)"

P.S.- I know can that characters(Parsed) in BufferedReader

I think that similar questions appeared on the website. Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2231369/scanner-vs-bufferedreader — Radek Wyroslak, Feb 01 '14 at 11:02
How about reading their documentation to see what both classes can and can't do? http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/ — JB Nizet, Feb 01 '14 at 11:03
@Radek - I used to Research bar to find that but it didn't show that a similar question has been asked. — user3253946, Feb 01 '14 at 11:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '14 at 11:26

Read this article here

BufferedReader

A BufferedReader is a simple class meant to efficiently read from the underling stream
read() or readLine() could cause bytes to be read from the file, converted into characters, and then returned, which can be very inefficient
Efficiency is improved appreciably if a Reader is warped in a BufferedReader.
BufferedReader is synchronized, so read operations on a BufferedReader can safely be done from multiple threads

Scanner

Scanner can do all that a BufferedReader can do and at the same level of efficiency
Scanner can parse the underlying stream for primitive types and strings using regular expressions

I suggest to use BufferedReader because it throws the exception immediately

Simply - Input Output Exceptions read this http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/IOException.html — Suganthan Madhavan Pillai, Feb 01 '14 at 13:58

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