How can I equate a word from Scanner to a String word in java? There is more in the description

Question

I tried to equate, but there is nothing outputted in the console or occures a mistace "incompatibility operated types Scanner and String".

Scanner c = new Scanner;
If(c == "a word") { System.out.println("something outputs"); }

How can I write this another way? And is it possible?

Answer 1

Scanner c = new Scanner(System.in);

// String input
String str = c.nextLine();

// For string comparison
if(str.equals("a word") == 0) {
// True case statement(s)
}

Note:
== is an operator while .equals() is a method.
== operator is used to compare references(addresses) of two strings, on the other hand .equals() method is used to compare the content of two strings.

Answer 2

nAutAxH AhmAd Just a small correction.
The equals method will return a boolean and 0 is an integer value so the comparison is not happening.

It will return a type mismatch error.

Answer 3

Avinesh thanks for the correction. Didn't noticed about the return type.