Scanner

The java.util.Scanner class can be used to convert text into primitives or Strings. Since it is based on the java.util.regex package, it also offers a way to conduct regular expression based searches on streams, file data, strings, or implementors of the Readable interface. Refer to the documentation at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html.