It says it's wrong but on my Workspace it runs.

Question

It says "Bummer! Make sure you are using equalsIgnoreCase on the firstExample variable and use console.printf" But if I copy and paste it on my Workspaces it runs as expected.

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");
     }

Answer 1 · 2017-06-07T13:37:25Z

June 7, 2017 1:37pm

There are actually two issues with your solution:

You have a semicolon following the conditions of the if statement. That is incorrect. By placing a semicolon there you end the if statement prematurely. Which results in the contents of its body being executed regardless of whether the if statement was supposed to run.
You have changed / removed the code you typed in the first task of this challenge. When you are doing challenges with multiple parts you have to keep the code from each task around in order to complete the challenge. If you don't then you will not be able to pass, even if your code works for the current task you are on.

If you add the code from the first task back, and remove the semicolon that is not meant to be there like this:

String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
if (firstExample.equals(secondExample)) // Removed semicolon
{
    console.printf("first is equal to second");
}
if (firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(thirdExample)) // Removed semicolon
{
    console.printf("first and third are the same ignoring case");
}

Then your code will pass.

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Anas Rifaai

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It says it's wrong but on my Workspace it runs.

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andren

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