HI guys and thanks for the suggestions. I came across this in a workbook put out by JEDI in 2006. I am actually working through a Sun tutorial for beginners, the CDJ110 series and I am mostly using JEdit or Notepad. I confess to my frustrations at not moving faster but the slower pace is much better and things are beginning to stick. I still struggle some with the right syntax and spend a lot of time going back and looking up the right syntax. I guess that will improve.
I have NetBeans and MyEclipse on my computer but found that try to learn the language and the
IDE was too troublesome and confusing for now. So, for the foreseeable future it is command line for me!
FWIW, Scanner does look simpler and more intuitive.
Thanks again!
Bryant