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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype String Equality

Posted by David Hunt
David Hunt
1,903 Points

is there a problem with the program checking equalsIgnoreCase?

I don't understand why I am getting this wrong. I got the first part correct with firstExample.equals then simply changed it to firstExample.equalsIgnoreCase(thirdExample) for this part, and it doesn't go through. I checked spelling and everything, and it still isn't right. What did I do wrong here?

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"); 
}
David Hunt
David Hunt
1,903 Points

So I went ahead and got rid of the quotes around thirdExample, but it still doesn't go through. Is there anything else I could do?

1 Answer

John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points
John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points

Your code is correct (after removing the quotes from thirdExample), I believe the problem here is that you may have deleted the code from the first challenge. If you put the if statement from task one back in above the second task's if statement, you should pass the challenge.

David Hunt
David Hunt
1,903 Points

Thank you so much John!