Easy getline class for getting the input from user

Hi. Recently I "ported" myself from C++ to Java, and tried to do some simple console applications. What surprised me was that the cout and cin methods from C++ in Java were much more complicate, in the sense of writing and implementing (cin in this case). So then I created a class which would help me get the input from the user. This method takes the whole stream from the input (meaning also the empty space character ' ') and returns it in a Java String. Also you can modify this so that it would return a Java StringBuffer class. Anyway, hope it helps those "porting" themselves from C++ to Java.
It's a public static method of the Cstdin Class, so you must call it by String line=Cstdin.getline();

Code:


import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Cstdin {
   public static String getline(){
      try{
          BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
          String str = "";
          str = in.readLine();
          return (str);
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
         return "";
      }
   }
}