Thread: help with console input strnig....

i have a console input class that works on buff = new BufferedInputStream(System.in);
it returns a string of the input ....
now when i use it the string that comes back is in some way different .
let say a input "abc" if i write the string it well print "abc" but if i use input.equals( "abc") it is false
here is my main...

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
 
public class DemoGeter
{
public static void main(String[] args)
   {
    String inputS = new String(ConsoleInput.readLine());
 
    String result = ReplaceString.replaceString(inputS); // replaces some of the chars (file separator)  prints 
                                                                                            the result.....
    System.out.println(result);
 
    String seeIf = new String("M:/iPod_Control/Music");
 
    System.out.println(seeIf);
 
    if (seeIf.equals(result))
    System.out.println("same");
    else 
    System.out.println("not same");

here is the output for input " M:/iPod_Control/Music"

M:/iPod_Control/Music \\input line
M:/iPod_Control/Music \\ replaceString result and return string
M:/iPod_Control/Music \\ seeIf is the string i what to get to....
not same \\ if statement shows that string are different
no files false

Just as a side note, please don't use new for a String, you might end up messing up.
just use

String seeIf = "M:/iPod_Control/Music";

There would be disastrous results if u start using new for String, especially when you use == for comparing such strings rather than equals.

Acumen,
Lucid forums

i don't think that the problem is with replacestring method because even if i change the if statement to
if (seeIf. equals(inputS)) the same output is shown ..... but here it is ...

 
import java.io.*;
class ReplaceString
{
static int count = 0;
public static String replaceString(String str)
  {       
         if (str.indexOf(":") == 1 && count == 0)
            {
             count ++;
             String str1 = str.substring(2,str.length());
             String str2 = replaceString(str1);
             str1 = str.substring(0,2);
             String str3 = str1.concat(str2);
             return str3;
            }  
 
         String re = str.replace( '\\', File.separatorChar);
         str = new String(re.replace( '/', File.separatorChar));
         re = new String(str.replace( ':', File.separatorChar));
         if (File.separatorChar == '\\')
         { 
         String n = new String(re.replace('\\', '/'));
         return n;
         }
 
    return re;
   }
}

well thanks every one i found out the problem there was some how some space that got caught at the end of the input when the input stream ended so all i did is add a trim() method to the return from the consoleInput method and it worked ...