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Patrick Shushereba
10,911 PointsString Equality Exercise
I'm having trouble with this exercise. I'm not quite understanding what I'm doing wrong. The compiler is telling me that the strings aren't the same length.
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console.
String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
if (firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(firstExample, thirdExample)) {
console.printf("first and third are the same ignoring case");
}
2 Answers
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsHey Patrick,
When doing challenges that have more than 1 task, be sure to leave the data behind from the 1st task unless explicitly told to delete that data. Also, equalsIgnoreCase() takes only one argument, which is the string to compare to. You call equalsIgnoreCase() on firstExample and then compare it to thirdExample:
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console.
String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
//first task
if (firstExample.equals(secondExample)) {
console.printf("first is equal to second");
}
//second task
if (firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(thirdExample)) {
console.printf("first and third are the same ignoring case");
}
Miles Rakestraw
204 PointsThe method "equalsIgnoreCase()" only takes one parameter of type string. So your it would look something like "string1.equalsIgnoreCase(string2)". This compares string1 to string2. If you intend to code Java I highly recommend becoming familiar with the oracle java docs site here it will come in handy.