Java Scanner String Input If statement not working
if-statement, input, java
Solution
You can't compare strings like that. Use `.equals()` instead:
if(userinput.equals("admin")) { // etc
Why, you ask?
- == checks to see if the actual object references are the same.
- `equals(...)` checks if the two Strings hold the same string (ie the same characters in the same order)
Problem
I am very new to java, and this seems very simple, perhaps I am missing something. Below is a little bit of my code, what it should do is have the user enter the a password, which is stored in userinput, unfortunately if I type admin which I have it set to == "admin" it will not work, even if I do all caps or all lowercase like I have it. I even tried pre-setting a variable such as String password = "admin"; and having it set to be if (userinput == password) but that did not seem to work either. Please help! ``` } public void protect(){ Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter password: "); String userinput = input.nextLine(); if (userinput == "admin"){ System.out.println("Correct!"); } else if (userinput != "admin"){ System.out.println("Wrong!"); } } } ``` Quick summary, no matter what password I type, even if it is "admin" it goes right to wrong.