Not sure if this is some kind of issue, or I'm just missing something important.  I could really use some help!

When I use split to parse a string, it successfully cuts up the string into elements of an array.  HOWEVER, when I then try to test an element in the resulting array in a conditional, it doesn't work.

For example, to use slightly modified code from the Reference section:

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String men = "Chernenko,Andropov,Brezhnev";
String[] list = split(men, ',');

println(list[0]);

if (list[0] == "Chernenko"){
 println("it worked!");
}
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This code only outputs "Chernenko".  It does not print "it worked!", the conditional is not met.  Even though printing list[0] displays a value of "Chernenko", it does not recognize it as that in the conditional statement.


Did I explain that clearly?  Can any tell me why this isn't working... or what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

While we are in the doc bug section, I think I should take this opportunity to ask authors to fix the documentation of == (equality) reference page.
It is the third time in a short while that I see users trying == on strings, some of them pointing to this page.
Indeed, it states it applies to "int, float, char, byte, boolean, String".
I suggest you remove String: while it can work is some rare cases, it provides more confusion than help, I fear.

Perhaps even provide a hint to use .equals() to compare strings, I don't know if it is covered elsewhere in the documentation.

This is already covered in the String reference:
http://processing.org/reference/String.html

And the troubleshooting page (Help > Troubleshooting):
http://processing.org/reference/troubleshooting/index.html#strings

I've now added it to the == reference as well for release 0149, but I doubt it'll make any difference.

For reference requests, please file bugs so that we can fix them. You can't count on Casey and I reading every single post on the board.

PhiLho  wrote on Sep 29^th, 2008, 10:11pm:

Sorry, didn't mean that to sound like a scold--you help us with enough things (filing bugs, answering questions) that you're the least of our worries.