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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Syntax Questions › String equality

GordonA YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	String equality May 14th, 2005, 8:49pm   I don't seem to be able to get a very simple String equality to work as demonstrated in this simple bit of code: String sent="This is a sentence."; String[] word = split(sent); for (int i=0;i<word.length;i++){  if (word[i]=="is"){    print(word[i]+" is word "+i);  } }

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: String equality Reply #1 - May 14th, 2005, 9:03pm   use String.equals("..") with strings: Code: String sent="This is a sentence."; String[] word = split(sent); for (int i=0;i<word.length;i++){ if (word[i].equals("is")){ print(word[i]+" is word "+i); } } TomC explains: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb/YaBB.cgi?action=display;board=Syntax;num=1100632237;start=0#4 F

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: String equality Reply #2 - May 15th, 2005, 4:48pm   also the final item in the faq under "common issues/not bugs" http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#issues