Why does java.util.Scanner exist? [duplicate]

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Scanner vs. BufferedReader

Is there any situation in which it's apropriate to use java.util.Scanner in order to read input of some sort? In my small test I've found it to be incredibly slow compared to java.util.Bufferedreader or implementing your own reader from java.util.InputStreamReader.

So is there any reason as to why I would want to use a Scanner?

Answer 1

From the docs:

A simple text scanner which can parse primitive types and strings using regular expressions.

That won´t do a BufferedReader.