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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype String Equality

Posted by alexanderskog
alexanderskog
3,587 Points

If statement that checks to see if firstExample is equal to secondExample.

What am I doing wrong here?

Equality.java 
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console. 
String firstExample = "hello";
if (firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(secondExample)) {
  console.printf("first is equal to second"); }
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The problem is the placement of your code. You ask Java to compare the variable firstExample to secondExample, but what exactly is secondExample? At the point you have placed your code that variable has yet not been declared.

If you move the code below the variable declarations like this:

String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
if (firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(secondExample)) {
  console.printf("first is equal to second"); }

Then the code will work fine.

alexanderskog
alexanderskog
3,587 Points
alexanderskog
alexanderskog
3,587 Points

Thank you! It works now.