User Input is data that the user inputs into the program. It generally takes the form of a String, but may also be an integer, floating-point number, etc.
Questions tagged [user-input]
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Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine()) vs scanner.nextInt()
My professor tends to do the following to get a number from the user:
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());
What are the benefits as opposed to simply doing scanner.nextInt() ?
java.util.Scanner.java has…
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Detect Keyboard Input Matlab
I have a simple question, although it's harder than it seems; I couldn't find the answer on the interwebs :O
I'm writing a script in Matlab. What I want to do is the following:
When I press the esc key, I want a helpdialogue to pop up, so my script…
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Why can't I enter a string in Scanner(System.in), when calling nextLine()-method?
How does this program actually work...?
import java.util.Scanner;
class string
{
public static void main(String a[]){
int a;
String s;
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("enter a no");
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Should "http://" be stored with a database record of a URL?
There are a number of fields a user can fill in where they'd enter a URL (their personal website, business site, favorite sites, etc etc).
It's the only thing they'd be entering in that particular field.
So should I always strip out "http://" to…
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jmeter testcases which can handle captcha?
We are trying to build a jmeter testcase which does the following:
login to a system
obtain some information and check whether correct.
Where we are facing issues is because there is a captcha while logging into the system. What we had planned to…
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Stop user from leaving web page, except for when submitting form
To stop the user from leaving my page, I'm using this javascript:
window.onbeforeunload = function()
{
if($('textarea#usermessage').val() != '')
{
return "You have started writing a message.";
}
};
This shows a message warning the user…
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How to fix 'RuntimeError: input(): lost sys.stdin' error in python 3.7
I am practicing some codes and seemingly out of nowhere i have got this error when I ran a very usual piece of code. The problem i am solving takes input, calculates something and gives an output.
I was running it on an online IDE (some coding…
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wix getting user input
Dialog.wxs
In Product.wxs I created a property
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Function that asks a ~special~ something and returns an answer
I want to do it, but so far all I have is:
print("Will you go out with me?")
I want the code to work so that one can answer yes/no and if answer is yes then a message would return saying like the time, place, etc.
The person I am asking is an R…
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Allow only selected charcters based on regex in an EditText
I want to allow users only to type certain characters based on the a regex in my android applications. How do I achieve it?
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PHP to clean-up pasted Microsoft input
I have a site where users can post stuff (as in forums, comments, etc) using a customised implementation of TinyMCE. A lot of them like to copy & paste from Word, which means their input often comes with a plethora of associated MS inline…
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Haskell - How do I break out of interact?
I am using interact to process some user inputs step-by-step (specifically, it's a chess program). However, I haven't found a way to deal with the situation where the user might want to just break out of the loop and start this match of chess from…
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PL/SQL: how do I prompt user input in a procedure?
This is a question about a small part of a large project I'm doing. I tried the following but I just get the two errors below it:
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE HELLO AS
DECLARE
variable1 NUMBER(1);
variable2…
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Effective Keyboard Input Handling
What is a good way to implement keyboard handling? In any language, where I write a keyboard-interactive program (such as a tetris game), I end up having some code that looks like this:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == KEYDOWN:
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Can keyboard of type UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad be made to start in phone mode?
Is there some way to have a keyboard of type UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad start in phone number pad mode rather than alphabetic? The keyboard works well for what I need but I'd like it to start in the "other" mode since that is more likely what the…
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