Thread: New at Java... my if, else if, else program doesn't seem to work, skips to else.Help!

No matter what I input the program always returns "What!!!". Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
class IfElseDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        String status;
 
 
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
		    System.out.println("Please enter Eat or Drink");
        status = keyboard.nextLine();
 
 
        if (status == "Eat") {
            System.out.println("Yum!!!");
        } else if (status == "Drink") {
            System.out.println("Wow!!!");
        } else {
			System.out.println("What???");
 
        }
 
    }
}

See
== operator or equals() method

try if(status.equals("Eat"))

Just as I submitted this I tried changing the status ==

 
class IfElseDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        String status;
 
 
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
		    System.out.println("Please enter Eat or Drink");
        status = keyboard.nextLine();
 
 
        if (status.equals("Eat")) {
            System.out.println("Yum!!!");
        } else if (status.equals("Drink")) {
            System.out.println("Wow!!!");
        } else {
			System.out.println("What???");
 
        }
 
    }
}

Thanks for the quick replies glad that I could figure it out on my own! Just started an Intro to Java course... sure I'll be back.