Incompatible operand types Scanner and int

[brent carter]

I have a simple code such as

System.out.println("Do you want to Attack (1) Magic (2) Heal (3) Run Away (4)?");
	Scanner choices = new Scanner(System.in);
	choices.nextInt();
	if (choices == 1){

I assumed that the function nextInt would automatically assign choices as an int and if so why does my if statement say Incompatible operand types Scanner and int.

Also how would I do it if the Scanner input was a string and I want to say if (choices == attack) etc

Thanks!

[Randall Twede]

compare your code to the Scanner API

Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int i = sc.nextInt();

in your code you are comparing the Scanner itself to an int

[brent carter]

thanks randall...makes perfect sense. I am having a bit of trouble copying this to strings tho. for instance.

System.out.println("Do you want to attack, magic, heal, run?");
	Scanner choices = new Scanner(System.in);
	String fightselect = choices.nextLine();
	if (fightselect == "attack"){
		System.out.println("you attacked");

doesnt work. what is the difference here between ints and strings?

[John Jai]

You should use equals() method instead of == while comparing strings.