Thread: Difference between nextBoolean and hasNextBoolean?

My program works fine and I'll post it here for you to see. But I'm trying to understand the difference between hasNext and hasNextBoolean. In the part of my program where I have answer = myScanner.hasNextBoolean I noticed that if I try to type myScanner.nextBoolean eclipse automatically changes it myScanner.hasnextBoolean.

So what is the difference between the two methods?

My program is this:

import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class TriviaQuestion
{
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in);
		boolean answer;
 
		System.out.print("True or False: The first televised presidential debate was between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy: ");
 
		answer = myScanner.hasNextBoolean();
 
		if(myScanner.nextBoolean() == answer)
			System.out.print("Correct!");
 
		else
			System.out.print("Sorry. You got it wrong.");				
	}
}

Originally Posted by Norm

Please read the API documentation for those two methods. If you have questions about what is said there, copy the text and paste it here with your questions.
The API doc: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html


I have no idea why your IDE wants to change the code.

I do not see methods in the API documentation. So I will tell you what I have turned up. hasNextBoolean is a method used to check if the next token can be interpreted as a boolean value. nextBoolean is a method which is used to scan the next token of the input into a boolean value and returns that value.

I'm not sure I understand the difference.