I'm working on a program which would locate the word 'Nemo' in a string. I'm new to java, please help me fix this.

Question

import java.util.Scanner;

class solution {

public static void main ( String[] args ) {

// taking inputs
Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
int numberWords = input.nextInt();
input.nextLine();
String string = input.nextLine();
input.close();

// creating list of words
String[] words = string.split( " ", numberWords );

// finding and printing Nemo
for ( int i = 0; i < numberWords; i++ ) {
if ( words[i] == "Nemo" )
System.out.println( i + 1 );
break;
}
}
}

Answer 1

I did not try your code, but my guess would be to compare the strings by the string method .equals() instead of the == operator as you want to compare the string "contents" not their instances.

Once you found Nemo, search for Dory, too. :-)

Answer 2

Heres the code that i did for it: https://code.sololearn.com/c32FSQPgU1Yt/#java

try to compare to spot out the differences.

Answer 3

Actually I had to find only the word 'Nemo'... If there were a word like 'notNemo', indexOf would have scanned it and printed the output... And also I had to tell which number word it was, that's why the first thing that hit my mind was the way I would have done it in python

Answer 4

Martin Taylor, I will definitely try the regex method... Seems interesting

Answer 5

Lisa and pNK... The equals method is working thanks