Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

Try this out :

import java.util.*;
    public class str {

        public static void main(String args[])
        {
          Scanner in=new Scanner(System.in);
          System.out.println("ENTER YOUR STRING: ");
          String a=in.nextLine();
          System.out.println("GIVEN STRING IS: "+a);
          StringBuffer str=new StringBuffer(a);
          StringBuffer str2=new StringBuffer(str.reverse());
          String s2=new String(str2);
          System.out.println("THE REVERSED STRING IS: "+str2);
            if(a.equals(s2))    
                System.out.println("ITS A PALINDROME");
            else
                System.out.println("ITS NOT A PALINDROME");
            }
    }