Thread: Char cannot be dereferenced!! Please help

Hi all im working on a program and have got the error "char cannot be dereferenced". The for loop iterates through the array "people" and sends a message to each one using the method "getPerson()". This method gets a single character from a StringBuilder array. The method is declared as the return type char so i used .toString to try to change it into a string as I got a different error before. I am a novice in java so im not even sure im going about this theright way! I hope someone can help because I just cant see a way forward!

Thankyou in advance for anyone willing to help.

 
 for (int i = 0; i < people.length; i++)
      {
         aHouse.getPerson();
         {
            if (aHouse.getPerson().toString() == "Y")  
            {
               return "Yes";
            }
         }
      }

Strings should be compared using the .equals() method.

I had already tried that before I posted but when I tried to compile it just kept telling me I needed a bracket on the line shown below and if I added a bracket it just continued giving that error:

for (int i = 0; i < people.length; i++)
      {
         aHouse.getPerson();
         {
            if (aHouse.getPerson().toString().equals == "Y")  // compiler says i need an ) here
            {
               return "Yes";
            }
         }
      }