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Adan Huerta
3,209 Pointsif Statements
Add an if statement that checks to see if firstExample is equal to secondExample. If it is, print out "first is equal to second".
What am I missing?
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console.
String firstExample = "hello";
if (firstExample.equals(" secondExample ")) {
console.printf("first is equal to second");
}
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
2 Answers
Nico Julian
23,657 PointsHey Adan,
So the first thing is that in your if statement, you are checking to see if firstExample is equal to secondExample; since secondExample is the name of a variable, it shouldn't be surrounded by quotations- this would make it into a string.
Then it's a matter of where the if statement is written. If you read line by line from the top, first "hello" is stored to the firstExample variable, then the if statement is run to check equality with secondExample. The problem is secondExample isn't yet defined. So, the if just has to go below the string declarations.
// I have imported a java.io.Console for you, it is named console.
String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
if (firstExample.equals(secondExample)) {
console.printf("first is equal to second");
}
Adan Huerta
3,209 PointsThanks Nico! I was able to solve it with some help. :]