Hello. I'm hoping that someone could explain why the following "if" statements do not evaluate?

String arduino_color="";
String cheer_color[] = loadStrings(" http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417/field/1/last.txt");

 

void draw()
{
 String cheer_color[] = loadStrings(" http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417/field/1/last.txt");

//set possible color states as one Character Strings - eg. red=R
if (cheer_color[0].equals("red")) {
    String arduino_color="R";
    }
if (cheer_color[0].equals("green")) {
    String arduino_color="G";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("blue")) {
    String arduino_color="B";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("cyan")) {
    String arduino_color="C";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("white")) {
    String arduino_color="W";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("warmwhite")) {
    String arduino_color="H";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("purple")) {
    String arduino_color="P";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("magenta")) {
    String arduino_color="M";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("yellow")) {
    String arduino_color="Y";
}
if (cheer_color[0].equals("orange")) {
    String arduino_color="O";
}

println(cheer_color[0]);
println(arduino_color);
}

 

cheer_color is retrieved and returns the correct value (e.g. "blue") but arduino_color never gets set to a value (e.g. "B").

 

Eventually what I'm hoping to accomplish will be to pass the value of cheer_color[0] to an arduino via the serial port, and I figured a 1 Byte string would be the way to go. I just can't see what's wrong with the if statement...

 

Thanks!

Eventually I'm going to have it write the color from the above to the serial port, then have an arduino listening on the serial port display a string of GE-35 lights in the appropriate color.

 

I tried to use read() but it didn't work. I'm assuming because I was defining a specific page, rather than just a server.

 

Thanks in advance!