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Difference Between Scanner and BufferedReader Class in Java
Last Updated : 21 Sep, 2022
In Java, Scanner and BufferedReader class are sources that serve as ways of reading
inputs. Scanner class is a simple text scanner that can parse primitive types and
strings. It internally uses regular expressions to read different types while on
the other hand BufferedReader class reads text from a character-input stream,
buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient reading of the sequence of
characters

The eccentric difference lies in reading different ways of taking input via the
next() method that is justified in the below programs over a similar input set.

Example 1:

// Java Program to Illustrate Scanner Class

// Importing Scanner class from

// java.util package
import java.util.Scanner;

// Main class
class GFG {

// Main driver method

public static void main(String args[])
{

// Creating object of Scanner class to

// read input from keyboard
Scanner scn = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Enter an integer & a String");

// Using nextInt() to parse integer values

int a = scn.nextInt();

// Using nextLine() to parse string values

String b = scn.nextLine();

// Display name and age entered above

System.out.printf("You have entered:- " + a + " "
+ "and name as " + b);
}
}
Output:
Enter an integer & a String
10 John
You have entered:- 10 and name as John
Let us try the same using Buffer class and the same Input below as follows:

Example 2:

// Java Program to Illustrate BufferedReader Class

// Importing required class

import java.io.*;

// Main class
class GFG {

// Main driver method

public static void main(String args[])
throws IOException
{

// Creating object of class inside main() method

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(System.in));

System.out.println("Enter an integer");

// Taking integer input

int a = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());

System.out.println("Enter a String");

String b = br.readLine();

// Printing input entities above

System.out.printf("You have entered:- " + a
+ " and name as " + b);
}
}
Output:

Outputs explanation: In Scanner class if we call nextLine() method after any one of
the seven nextXXX() method then the nextLine() does not read values from console
and cursor will not come into console it will skip that step. The nextXXX() methods
are nextInt(), nextFloat(), nextByte(), nextShort(), nextDouble(), nextLong(),
next().

In BufferReader class there is no such type of problem. This problem occurs only
for the Scanner class, due to nextXXX() methods ignoring newline character and
nextLine() only reads till the first newline character. If we use one more call of
nextLine() method between nextXXX() and nextLine(), then this problem will not
occur because nextLine() will consume the newline character.

Tip: See this for the corrected program. This problem is same as scanf() followed
by gets() in C/C++. This problem can also be solved by using next() instead of
nextLine() for taking input of strings as shown here.

Following are the Major Differences between Scanner and BufferedReader Class in
Java

BufferedReader is synchronous while Scanner is not. BufferedReader should be used

if we are working with multiple threads.
BufferedReader has a significantly larger buffer memory than Scanner.
The Scanner has a little buffer (1KB char buffer) as opposed to the BufferedReader
(8KB byte buffer), but it’s more than enough.
BufferedReader is a bit faster as compared to Scanner because the Scanner does the
parsing of input data and BufferedReader simply reads a sequence of characters.

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