how to compare the entire user input in android taken through edit text with a hard coded string

Question

this is what I tried doing:

 EditText text_ans1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.ans_one);
 String ans1 = text_ans1.getText().toString();
 if(ans1=="abc")

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '18 at 15:24

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You can't compare strings with == in Java.

This is the correct way:

if( ans1.equals("abc") )

answered Jun 19 '18 at 15:24

aletede91

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '18 at 15:32

2

The == operator is comparing references, that's not what you want. Like @aletede91 said you have to use the equals method to compare values

answered Jun 19 '18 at 15:32

SamyB

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