[Felissa]

I'm trying to write a small text based game. I decided I would like to add items to the game. When using the Scanner I'm trying to turn a String into an Items.

since I cannot cast

Code:

Items item = (Items) scanner.nextLine();

I tried doing it this way

Code:

Object itemToBeUsed = (Object) scanner.nextLine();
Items item = (Items) itemToBeUsed;

the complier is fine with that, but at runTime it gives me a ClassCastException when I try and use it. How should I go about fixing this?

Code:

else if(cmd.equalsIgnoreCase("take")){
        	Scanner itemToTake = new Scanner(System.in);
        	Object itemBeingTaken = itemToTake.nextLine();
        	
        	Items item = (Items) itemBeingTaken;
        	return ""
           	+this.location.take(this, item);
        }
        	
        else if(cmd.equalsIgnoreCase("use")){ 
        	Scanner itemToUse = new Scanner(System.in);
        	System.out.println("what item would you like to use?");
        	
        	Object itemString = itemToUse.nextLine();
        	Items item = (Items) itemString;
        	
        	return ""+
        	useItemFromInventory(item);}

any help? Thanks.

Felissa