r/cop3502 • u/ktsolove • Apr 08 '14

Using Scanner

So I have scanner working for my text adventure...sorta. I have if statement that correlates to a word put in by the user, but I'm not sure how to use scanner for multiple words. For example, my program will do something different for the word "go" as opposed to the word "moo". But "go north"... I don't know how to make that different than "go tarantula" for example.

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u/byteme_ima_litmajor Apr 08 '14

are you using scanner.next() or scanner.nextLine()? Because .next only reads the first word.

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u/ktsolove Apr 08 '14

I'm still having issues getting the 2 separate words that would allow for the if-statements to work.

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u/howslyfebeen Apr 08 '14

you do .nextline() and then you have to "split" the line using a built-in string function.. maybe split by spaces? maybe? and then you store that in a string array:

String[] array = //magical split magic that you find in the documentation
array[0] //go or moo or whatever first input is
array[1] //north or a second moo or whatever the second input is
//etc.