Using Scanner and String together

Question

What i am tryign to do:
Set up a menu, and the user has 3 options
a, b, c.
what i would like to happen:
is to set up a scanner that user the charAt methd form String class to only accpet the 1 letter entered into the scanner.
Is this the rigth was to do it? or is there an easier way?
//code above
    System.out.println("");
    System.out.println("Enter Option a, b or c");
switch(option)
           case 'a' :
// STATEMENTS ARE HERE
           case 'ab' :
// STATEMENTS ARE HERE
            case 'c' :
// WANT TO END PROGRAM
                }

Answer 1

what i would like to happen:
is to set up a scanner that user the charAt methd
form String class to only accpet the 1 letter entered
into the scanner.How about you simply doing charAt on the String yourself?
Though I would simply wrap some Reader around System.in and simply read the first char, flushing the stream afterwards.