You can change the delimiter that is used to tokenize the input,
through the useDelimiter method of Scanner. You can pass in a String or
a java.util.regex.Pattern to the method. See the JavaDocs page for
Pattern for information on what patterns are appropriate. For example,
you can read the input one line at a time by using the newline character
(\n) as a delimiter. Here is a readFile() method that uses a newline
character as the delimiter:

   private static void readFile(String fileName) {
     try {
       Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
       scanner.useDelimiter(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
       while (scanner.hasNext()) {
         System.out.println(scanner.next());
       scanner.close();
     } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
     }
   }

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:37:04 -0600,
m_ozkaya@ug.bilkent.edu-dot-tr.no-spam.invalid (mert) wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :

from the javadoc

The scanner can also use delimiters other than whitespace. This
example reads several items in from a string:

    String input = "1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish";
    Scanner s = new Scanner(input).useDelimiter("\\s*fish\\s*");
    System.out.println(s.nextInt());
    System.out.println(s.nextInt());
    System.out.println(s.next());
    System.out.println(s.next());
    s.close();

prints the following output:

    1
    2
    red
    blue

Looks like it is much like split where you provide a pattern to
describe your delimiter, which is otherwile white space.