Comparing Strings After Using BufferedReader

[Joe Lank]

Line 10 is where I seem to have a problem. I want it to evaluate to true. Works fine when I initialize the string to 'test' right before doing the if statement, but not when inputting 'test' from the keyboard.

Or do I just need explicit casting?

import java.io.*;
 
public class testReadCommand {
public static void main(String[] args) {
 
// User inputs firstToken from keyboard
String firstToken = getString();
System.out.println( "firstToken is : " + firstToken );
 
if( firstToken == "test" ) {
System.out.println( "\nfirstToken recognized as 'test' by if statement" );
}
else if( firstToken != "test" ) {
System.out.println( "\nfirstToken NOT recognized as 'test' by if statement" + "(it is '" + firstToken + "' instead)" );
}
else
System.out.println( "\nCase Handling" );
} // end main
 
public static String getString() {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( System.in ));
try {
String st = br.readLine();
System.out.println( "get keyboard input complete.  Returning " + st );
return st; }
catch( IOException ex ) {}
return "get keyboard input incomplete";
} // end getString
} // end testReadCommand

PS - Thanks Darin that work great.
[ June 18, 2004: Message edited by: Joe Lank ]

[Darin Niard]

Strings are classes, not primitive types like ints or chars. So, use the equals method.

firstToken.equals("test")
!firstToken.equals("test")

I'm not sure if the BufferedReader leaves the newline character in or not, so check that out as well.