How do I create an if statement to see if a user has entered a specific word (Java)

Question

So I'm currently learning Java & have been watching thenewboston but I'm wanting to see if what the user types is x then do x hopefully that makes sense.

If you could leave an example it would help me a lot.

Answer 1

Use the string1.equals(string2) method:

String expected = "hello, world";
if(input.equals(expected)){
    //Do something
}

This method returns true if the two strings are equal and false if they are not. You cannot just use == as this compares the pointers/references of the strings, and not the strings' content.

Edit: You can read input by using a Scanner.