Question:

I'm trying to write an educational, simple, calculator with no GUI. But I can't seem to know how to get the operation symbol from the user .. I need to get the Char provided by the user .. I'm new to Java, and I searched a lot .. but I couldn't find out how ..

Can you post some of the code you've got so far? I'm thinking you can use the Scanner class to grab the char entered by the user. I personally haven't used StdIn.readChar() before as fredley has suggested, but I'm quite new to Java too.

EDIT: Oops, I didn't read the question title:

This could work:

scanner.nextLine().charAt(0);

The scanner class in Java has no method defined to read character entered by user so you have to get the input in form of a string and then change it to a character by some suitable technique.