charAt() return not a string?

Question

I'm trying to write some code that will tell me if the first letter of one string equals the first letter of another. I can't figure out how to compare a string to the return of charAt(). Help?

   public class CharAtTest
    {
        public static void main(String [] args)
        {
            String name = "joe";
            String initial = "j";
            if(initial.equals(name.charAt(0)))
            {
                System.out.println("Sucess");
            }else{
                System.out.println("Fail");
            }

        }
    }

Answer 1

You could use:

if (initial.charAt(0) == name.charAt(0))

or better

if (name.startsWith(initial)) {