Why doesn't this read my string please? I keep getting "animal unknown" 😕 thanks

Question

String animal;

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

animal = scan.nextLine();

if(animal == "frog"){

System.out.print("Croak!");}

if(animal == "dog"){

System.out.println("Woof!");}

if(animal == "cow"){

System.out.println("Moo!");

}else{

System.out.println("Animal unknown");}

Answer 1

I think it's because you use ==. If you compare 2 strings you should use .equals or .equalsIgnoreCase and than it should work
:)

Answer 2

if (animal.equalsIgnoreCase("frog")){
//what the frog says
}

Answer 3

can you give me an example as to were i insert .equals thanks

Answer 4

thanks now i just need to figure out if an animal string is unknown then to output "unknown animal". i tried>>

if(!animals.equalsIgnoreCase("frog" + "cow" + "dog" )){System.out.println("unknow animal");}

but didnt work and printed "croak" "animal unknown" 😕

can you help with that? thanks

Answer 5

Do
if ( condition 1){
}
else if (condition 2){
}
else if (condition n){
}
else {
// what's supposed to happen if it's none of the above
}

there u go ;)

Answer 6

Why are you concatenating frog,cow and dog? Use and for final condition.