Java exercise- help plese

[adrian10288]

My question is:

"Design, write and test a class which will read words from the keyboard until the word 'done' is entered. For each word except 'done', report whether the first character is equal to its last character. Notw that, for String str1, you can use the methods str1.charAt(0) and str1.charAt(str1.lenght()-1) to do the comparison."

so i have this already:

import java.util.*;

public class wordEquals {
  public static void main(String args[]) 
  {
	  Scanner k=new Scanner(System.in);
	  
	  final String str1="done";
	  
	  String word;
	  word=new String();
	  
	  do{
		  
		 System.out.println("Enter a word");
		 word=k.nextLine();
		  
		  
	  }
	  while (word.equals(str1)==false);
	  
	  System.out.println("You have found the secret word!");
	  
  }
}

and i dnt know what to do with the rest of the question. I dnt know how to use those methods mentioned in the q

thanks all for help

[JosAH]

The assignment text already gave you (part of) the answer; there are a few more details to solve: what if the input String is empty of contains just one character? If you have made a decision for these border situations you have to implement a loop like this: (pseudo code)

1) read a String
2) if input == "done" then stop
3) check the String and reply to the user
4) go to step 1

The details are in step 3)

kind regards,

Jos