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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype String Equality

Jeanette Norin
Jeanette Norin
1,952 Points
Posted by Jeanette Norin
Jeanette Norin
1,952 Points

You asked for a second if-statement on this task - which should then be "else if" - not "if".

The answer should take the else if statement, so we don't learn writing the wrong way :)

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

With an else if statement the code will only run if the if statement it is attached to did not run. Since they wanted both of the if statements to be run in this challenge it is correct to use two independent if statements.

So having two if statements in a row is not really "the wrong way" if you are testing separate unrelated things which is the case in this test.