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garyfitz123 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	boolean strings Feb 11th, 2008, 11:07pm   I know this is probably a very simple problem but it is bugging the life out of me. I am trying the following Code: if (stringA == "string") { println("true") } However, it will not work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Gary

JohnG Ex Member

Re: boolean strings Reply #1 - Feb 11th, 2008, 11:25pm   String is an Object type, and therefore the == operator just compares whether an Object is the same Object as another. Hence Code: String a="hello"; String b="hello"; if(a==b) println("yes"); else pritnln("no"); will print "no", but Code: String a="hello"; String b=a; if(a==b) println("yes"); else pritnln("no"); will print "yes". What you want is Code: if(stringA.equals("string")) { println(true); }