I have a java project created in in my src folder i have a package org.hw3.maze and there are my .java and text files that i want the scanner to read. <BR><BR>However when i run the program ...

The difference between the Java Scanner’s next() and nextLine() methods is that next() chunks a line of input into individual text Strings, while nextLine() returns an entire line of user input ...

Many “introductions to Java” tutorials often use the Scanner class or even worse, the InputStream class. Both of those approaches work, but they are needlessly verbose and confusing to Java newcomers.