FormatDemo.java

// console I/O with formatting strings
import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

class FormatDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args)
 throws IOException {
 // buffering container for read lines
 String[] string_array = new String[5];

 // charset object
 Charset charset = Charset.defaultCharset();
 // reader object
 BufferedReader reader
 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, charset));
 // printer object
 PrintWriter printer
 = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, charset), true);

 // capture text
 printer.println("Write some text [max 5 lines]:");
 for (int i = 0; i < string_array.length; i++) {
 string_array[i] = reader.readLine();
 }

 // print text
 printer.println("Here is your text:");
 for (String s: string_array) {
 // legacy C-style printf() could also be used here
 // %n defines a platform-specific terminator (recommended!)
 printer.format("This is your line: %s%n", s);

 // String has a format() method as well for building formatted strings
 // a la C-style sprintf
 }
 }
}