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Quinton Rivera
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Whats the difference between using system.out and the console print

Whats the difference between using system.out and the console print,

Second does console.printf and system.out.format do the same exact thing how do you know which one to use.

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Dennis Addo
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Dennis Addo
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System.out.printf or println() is used to print something to the console or normal System output. Console.printf() is a formatted String to the console. In case of Console.printf() when your program doesn't run on the terminal then it will return "NULL" but with the System.out.printf() or System.out.println() it doesn't. I think who your program runs only on a terminal then Console.printf() will be good for you.

System.out. ::: uses default platform encoding(utf-8 or others), while the Console class output methods use the console encoding.