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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by Christina Bluford
Christina Bluford
2,264 Points

Cannot find symbol

I keep getting a cannot find symbol error for my response.equalsIgnoreCaps expression. The arrow is pointing at the dot("."). Not really sure why it is doing that.

Example.java 
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
if(response.equalsIgnoreCaps("Yes") || response.equalsIgnoreCaps("No")){
  console.printf(response);
}

1 Answer

Sam Wilskey
Sam Wilskey
3,420 Points

The error is because

response.equalsIgnoreCaps("Yes") || response.equalsIgnoreCaps("No")

is not a valid String class method. The correct method is

response.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes") || response.equalsIgnoreCase("No")

Java looks for the Case not if they Caps specifically.

Hope this helps!

Christina Bluford
Christina Bluford
2,264 Points

AH! Thanks! Something so simple. I guess I've been looking at my computer too long. LOL.