Palindrome Checker Java boolean insight

Question

So I'm making a palindrome checker in java, and i've seemed to hit a roadblock this is my code so far:

public class StringUtil
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    System.out.println("Welcome to String Util.");       
    Scanner word = new Scanner(System.in);

    String X = word.nextLine();       
    String R = palindrome(X);

    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Original Word: " + X);     
    System.out.println("Palindrome: " + R);



}


public static boolean palindrome(String word)
{
   int t = word.length(); //length of the word as a number
   int r = 0;


   if(word.charAt(t) == word.charAt(r))
   {
       return true;
    }
    else
    return false;
}

so far I only want it to check if the first letter is the same as the last, but when i compile it i get an incompatible types error on "String R = palindrome(X);" How would i get it to print true or false on the output statement below it?

Answer 1

Your palindrome method returns a boolean, but you're attempting to assign it to a String. Change the definition of the R variable to boolean.