What is scanner skip in Java and why to use it?

Question

I am new to Java. Can somebody tell me what scanner.skip() does.

Answer 1

Scanner.skip() skips the input that matches the specified pattern ignoring the delimiters. It uses regex.

Here is an example for this:

Scanner scan=new Scanner(“Hi, how are you?”);

scan.skip(“.*are “);

System.out.println(scan.nextLine());

scan.close();

The output will be: you?

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