Line by line input via java console

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

      String CurLine = ""; // Line read from standard in

      while (!(CurLine.equals("quit"))){
          CurLine = in.readLine();

          if (!(CurLine.equals("quit"))){
              System.out.println("You typed: " + CurLine);
          }
      }

You need to use Scanner and loop through to ask for multiple times.

For example

Scanner stdin = new Scanner(new BufferedInputStream(System.in));
while (stdin.hasNext()) {
//Get input and do your logic.
}

I'm not sure I understand your question but...

 final List<String> inputs = new ArrayList<String>();
 final Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
      System.out.print("> ");
      inputs.add(in.next());
 }
 System.out.println(inputs);

Use the new Console class:

Console console = System.console();
if (console != null) {
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(console.reader());
    while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
        String line = scanner.nextLine();
        // Do something with your line
    }
}

End the input by pressing ^Z (control-Z) followed by ENTER.

It has one caveat and that is that the console can be null inside an IDE. Try it from the command-line and you should be fine:

java path.to.my.MainClass