Wrote to this code to break out of a while loop. Doesn't seem to be working and I cannot find any error with it.

Question

String usercont = lat.next();
if (usercont == "yes"){
System.out.println("Program is now exiting");
break;
}
else if (usercont == "no"){
continue;
}

Answer 1

The issue could be that you are using == for strings.
== does not compare equality for objects, it compares memory location. If you are taking input this could be an issue.
Use equals(String) instead.

Example/

if(userCont.equals("no"))

Answer 2

Many possible issues... It's hard to tell without the full code, but here are some ideas:
- play it safe - compare strings with the equals method (I'd bet on that!)
- uppercase/lowercase isn't checked
- what should continue do? I can't see no loop...

Answer 3

@Rrestoring faith you taught me this when i first started 😜

Answer 4

For String use "equals".
== checks for reference similarity, equals value similarity

Answer 5

Followed the same procedure with int and it worked perfectly but having some challenges with String