Java Weekday input Validation

Question

is there a "tidier" way of writing this code? I'm a stickler for simplicity and this seems a bit too repetitive for me. (I'm changing the days to numbers so that I can use them in their own if statements, if anyone was wondering) Any suggestions?

Scanner scanText = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.print("Enter Day: ");
String weekday = scanText.nextLine();

int day = 0;

if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Monday"))
  day = 1;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Tuesday"))
  day = 2;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Wednesday"))
  day = 3;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Thursday"))
  day = 4;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Friday"))
  day = 5;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Saturday"))
  day = 6;
else if (weekday.equalsIgnorCase("Sunday"))
  day = 7;
else {
  System.out.print("Error! Invalid day: ");
  weekday = scanText.nextLine();
}

Answer 1

If you are not using JDK 1.8, this code may help you:

     List<String> strDays = Arrays.asList("Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thusday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday" );

     String weekday = scanText.nextLine();

     int day = 0;
     if(strDays.contains(weekday)) {

         day = strDays.indexOf(weekday) + 1;
     } else {
         System.out.print("Error! Invalid day: ");
         weekday = scanText.nextLine();
     }