Reading Files (simple question)

Question

I'm doing some homework (and no, I'm not just looking for a handout answer, I just need a simple question answered) and I was wondering about how to read a word and evaluate if the word is the same as another word. I want to do this from a .txt file using the Scanner. I know I have to read the file and use while(ifp.hasNext()) but how do I evaluate it word by word? If there's anything else you need or if I'm asking the wrong question, let me know.

Answer 1

Is there any other way to read through a file other than nextLine? I know there's probably a simpler answer, but the only way I could think of doing it is storing the next line as a String and trying to find the specified word in the string. Not only am I not sure how to do that, I imagine there's a better way. Should I be evaluating it a different way?
Edit: I was looking at the javadoc on the Scanner class and I saw the findInLine method. We definitely didn't use this in our class, but is that what I should use?
Edited by: Mikola7 on Nov 5, 2007 4:14 PM
Edited by: Mikola7 on Nov 5, 2007 4:16 PM