How can I check/ compare the user input to the values in my array?

[mindofastudent]

Greetings!

I'm new to Java and I'm having trouble completing my program. It's supposed to act like the Text Twist game. My next step would be to check whether the user input in myString is equal to the values in the arWords and to give 1pt. for every equal word but I'm not sure how to go about the next step. Can I use the if and else command for it? This is the part of my program that works so far:


import java.util.*;
public class TextTwist
{
static Scanner kahil = new Scanner (System.in);
public static void main(String[] args)
{


String[][] arWords = {{"ALPHABET", "pal", "lap", "hat", "bet", "eat"},
{"CHRISTMAS", "hit", "mat", "sit", "sat", "hat"},
{"WONDERFUL", "one", "red", "few", "rod", "elf"}};

int random = (int) (Math.random() * 3);

int sum = 0, counter = 0;

System.out.println("WORD GAME");
System.out.println("Form/Input five 3-letter words from the word: " + arWords[random][0]);

String[] myString = new String[5];
myString[0] = kahil.next();
myString[1] = kahil.next();
myString[2] = kahil.next();
myString[3] = kahil.next();
myString[4] = kahil.next();

}

}

[DeNiS_M]

You colud use a for loop to traverse the arWords array
and an inner loop to traverse the myString array.
In each iteration just compare the values of the arrays!

Hope i helped! :)

[Rameshwar Soni]

Something like this........i know this is not a great code but i have just tried and sorry if there are any mistakes because i am also new to Java and it would be great if i would know my mistake

for(int i=0;i<arWords.length;i++)
{  
    for(int j=0;j<arWords[i].length;j++)
    {
        String s=arWords[i][j];
        boolean b=true;
        while(b)
       {
              for(int k=0;k<myString.length;k++) {
               if(s.equals(myString[k]))
               {
                    "Equal"
               }
               else
                     "NOT EQUAL"
                                                              }
                b=false;
         }
 }
}

[mindofastudent]

Thank you! They both helped!