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Thread: boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

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    Default boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

    Please tell this beginning coder why this do loop runs infinitely. It's supposed to break out into the switch statement when the user enters a "y" but it keeps looping no matter what. Thanks

    public static boolean YesNo (String query) {

    Scanner localScanner = new Scanner(System.in); // Create a Scanner object

    boolean temp = false;
    String c = "Y";
    do {
    System.out.print(query);
    c = localScanner.next();
    c = c.toUpperCase();
    } while (c != "Y"); //THIS DOESN'T WORK


    switch (c) {
    case "Y":
    temp = true;
    case "N":
    temp = false;
    }

    return temp;
    }

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    Default Re: boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

    Use the equals method to compare the contents of two String objects.

    Please edit your post and wrap your code with code tags:

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    Default Re: boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

    Just my recommendation. Dont need to convert to uppercase.
    The equalsIgnoreCase() method compares two strings, ignoring lower case and upper case differences

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    Default Re: boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

      static Boolean getAnswer(){
        System.out.print("Shall we continue? ");
     
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        String  input   = scanner.nextLine();
     
        if( input.toUpperCase().contains("Y") ){
          return true;
        }
        return false;
     
      } // getAnswer
    Last edited by AngleWyrm; July 15th, 2022 at 08:42 PM.

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