Can I create an OR statement when comparing strings?

Question

My code is:

import java.util.Scanner;

class mainClass {
    public static void main (String [] args) {          
        secondaryClass SCO = new secondaryClass();          
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);           
        String randomtext = scanner.nextLine();    
        if(randomtext.equals("What is the time"))
        {
            SCO.giveTime();               
        }
        else if (randomtext.equals("Whats the time"))
        {       
            SCO.giveTime();             
        }
    }       
}

I would like to know if I could replace that if else statement with some thing along the lines of:

import java.util.Scanner;

class mainClass {
    public static void main (String [] args) {  
        secondaryClass SCO = new secondaryClass();      
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);       
        String randomtext = scanner.nextLine();
        if(randomtext.equals("What is the time" || "Whats the time"))
        {
            SCO.giveTime();
        }       
    }
}

SCO is the object for my second class by the way, it outputs the time perfectly.

Answer 1

You can one comparison using regex, but it only moves the OR from java to regex:

if (randomtext.matches("(What is the time)|(Whats the time)"))

Although you can express it more succinctly:

if (randomtext.matches("What(s| is) the time"))

and even make an apostrophe and/or a question mark optional:

if (randomtext.matches("What('?s| is) the time\\??"))