New to Java.
I was debugging for hours until I finally found the problem: "==" compares two strings' references, not their value.
I began to laugh tears!
Oh my fucking shit... I am a... damn it!

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@ayukaphan Yeah, yeah, I know... now... 😆
But thanks nevertheless.

Thank you, it feels good to know someone else did this too!

In time this becomes second nature, but Intellij IDEA will always highlight this for you. Good luck

But remember: Sometimes comparing strings with == works

You need to use a better IDE

@Djanjo using "==" to check equality between strings would be a bug, not a syntax error.
PS: you can use == in C#. Though it's better to use CompareTo with CultureInfo parameters to balance out possible cultural differences anyway. This applies to both C# and Java.

@FunkDelegate
Like I said before..... A better IDE would explain you exactly what's wrong. Because == checks the references instead of the content.

@Djanjo I don't know Java ide's that well. I've only used Netbeans a bit. So you mean your ide gives you a warning?

@FunkDelegate
Yeah and even explains why and suggest a solution

@Djanjo which ide is it?

@FunkDelegate
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