In string comparison

Question

When I Was using == in string comparison, statement is not printing on the console. But I use equals or compareTo then it works fine.
Can u give me reason why this is happen in java

I am accepting string user from word
Str=sc.next();
And comparing
Like if(str=="inside" && str1=="alive" )
{ print statement}

Problem is print statement is not display on the console

Answer 1

Jinesh Jain
Please post a link 🔗 to the code, so I can inspect it

Answer 2

I am accepting string user from word
Str=sc.next();
And comparing
Like if(str=="inside" && str1=="alive" )
{ print statement}

Problem is print statement is not display on the console

Answer 3

Jinesh Jain

if(Str.equals("inside") && Str1.equals("alive")) {
print(statement)
}

Answer 4

But why we can't use ==

Answer 5

Jinesh Jain
That's one of the things that makes Java different from other programming languages

Answer 6

OK thank you

Answer 7

See which I learnt from Web and practise is that if we want to compare two strings
There is compareTo(): it basically return integer of what is difference between two letters
equals()
These type of comparison is used for specific types of function