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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype String Equality

andrew neves
andrew neves
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Posted by andrew neves
andrew neves
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anybody have any idea what could be wrong here? have tried multiple times and just cant put my finger on the error

Looking for someone to point me in the right direction here not able to figure this one out for some reason. I have a feeling its a very minuscule mistake that im over looking.

Equality.java 
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console. 
String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
if (firstExample.equals("secondExample")) {
console.printf("first is equal to second");
  System.exit(0);
}

String thirdExample = "HELLO";

1 Answer

Nils Kriedner
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Nils Kriedner
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Nils Kriedner
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Hi Andrew,

it looks like when you write 

firsExample.equals("secondExample")

you are actually comparing the firstExample VARIABLE with the STRING "secondExampleVariable" (not with the secondExample VARIABLE. Means you are checking wether the string "hello" equals the string "secondExample" - which are not equal.

So you might just have to delete those quotation marks.

Does that make sense?

I am asking because I actually don't know Java at all, but this could easily be the solution - as you wrote it's usually these tiny things... ;-)