Getting individual values from a table

Hi all,
I want to compare a string to each of the values I've got from a column. What I was doing was initialising a string array Tester[] and ,using a for loop, inserting each value from each row of the column into Tester[] for further use:
boolean val=true;
for (int i=1; val=true;i++){
try {
Tester[i]=res.getString(i);
}catch (Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
if (res.isLast()) val= false;
else val=true;
}
The "try" caught an invalid cursor state exception. Can anybody shed some light as to what is going on and how I can solve this problem??
all the best,
Alan

boolean val=true;
for (int i=1; val=true;i++){
try {
Tester[i]=res.getString(i);
}catch (Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
if (res.isLast()) val= false;
else val=true;
}
go for val == true rather than val = true inside for loop

The "val=true" pitfall has already been mentioned. But that's not all. First, "for" idiom. What about

Personally, I find the intermediate "val" variable just confusing. Also this won't fall over on empty resultsets.
Second, the use of isLast(). Note that the Javadoc says it may be an expensive operation. Also, it does not advance the cursor - what are you trying to do? If you are trying to retrieve successive records, then you should use next() and get rid of the res.getString(i) argument:

If you're trying to get all the fields in a single result record, neither next() nor isLast() will serve you as both deal with records (rows) rather than columns. Instead:

This would need to be nested within a while(res.next()) loop or similar.
- Peter

Thanks for the help guys....
I used the suggestion about next and after a little tweaking it worked nicely. Also, must include my apologies for the "val=true", that was a typing error.
All the best,
Alan