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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype String Equality

Posted by Brycen Gregg
Brycen Gregg
Courses Plus Student 305 Points

Equality challenge issues?

So the error message is telling me to make sure i put .equalsIgnoreCase and console.printf. I've looked over my code and the only thing i changed since the previous part of the change is from .equals to .equalsIgnoreCase. Please help!

Equality.java 
// 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(thirdExample))  { 
  console.printf("First and third are the same ignoring case");
}

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

The instructions may not cover this point but the challenge answers are supposed to be cumulative. You just need to leave the code for the first step of the challenge there are add a new if statement for the second step.