Thread: do-while loop containing switch statement cotinues looping when end statement is supposed to be reached?

Hello, I feel like I've tried everything and I genuinely don't know how to fix this. The point is for the program to accept both specific commands and 1-5 as acceptable inputs as the commands are pretty long to be typing in every time. Everything seems to work up until the point the do-while loop in the "runCommands" is supposed to end when "5" or "exit" is entered, but the loop just keeps on going. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?


Any help would be endlessly appreciated


import java.util.Scanner;

public class CodeAssignment {

private Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

private void newPrintln(String prompt) {
System.out.println(prompt);
}

private void programMenu() {
newPrintln("What would you like to do?"
+ "\n1. register new person. "
+ "\n2. increase age"
+ "\n3. list people"
+ "\n4. remove person"
+ "\n5. exit");
}


public void run() {
initialize();
runCommands();
exitProgram();
}


private void initialize() {
System.out.println("Welcome to the database!");
programMenu();


}


private void runCommands() {
String choice;
do {
System.out.println("> ");
choice = interpretChoice();
excecuteChoice(choice);

} while (choice != "exit" && choice != "5");

}


private String interpretChoice() {
String choice = input.nextLine();
return choice;
}


private void excecuteChoice (String choice) {
switch (choice) {
case "1":
case "register new person":
break;

case "2":
case "increase age":
break;

case "3":
case "list people":
break;

case "4":
case "remove person":
break;

case "5":
case "exit":
break;
default:
newPrintln("Error: no such command."
+ "\nTry again!");
programMenu();
}
}




private void exitProgram() {
newPrintln("Goodbye!");
input.close();

}

Can you copy the contents of the command prompt window and paste it here so we can see what you are talking about?

Where is the class's main method? It is needed for testing.

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

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Note: Use the equals method for comparing the contents of String objects, not the == or != operators.