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Posted by Eleni Konstantinidou
Eleni Konstantinidou
455 Points

cannot understand what i'm doing wrong

i cannot go past the first step of this challenge and i don't understand why this is my code

String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
    if (firstExample.equals("secondExample")){
      console.printf("first is equal to second");
    }

Steve Hunter

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hiya!

If you take the "" out of the brackets, your code is fine. 

if (firstExample.equals("secondExample")){

The variable secondExample is a variable. You have treated it as a string by using "".

So, use:

if (firstExample.equals(secondExample)){

Make sense?

Steve.

Eleni Konstantinidou
Eleni Konstantinidou
455 Points
Eleni Konstantinidou
Eleni Konstantinidou
455 Points

Yes! Thank you :)