Billing Statement

for(int i=0; i<menuarraynum; i++) {
if(eatmenuarray[i] == eatchoice) {
System.out.println("success");
eat.consume(eatmenuarray[i]);
}
else {
System.out.println("failed " + (i+1) + " times");
}
}

I’ve been staring at it and making changes to it for about 40 minutes now, and I just can’t get it to work!

I have an array that contains 8 fields with some types of food in there. I type in "Pork" (it’s number 6 in the array) when I am prompted (input gets put on to the `eatchoice` variable) and it is supposed to send me to another method, but for some reason it fails every time, and all I see is "failed 1 times", "failed 2 times", etc etc. Can anyone help me out?

I’m guessing that eatmenuarray[] is an array of Strings? If so, you can’t compare String with ==. You need to do something like eatmenuarray[i].equals(eatchoice);

== will compare the objects to see if they are the same object. It will not compare the content of the object. A string is an object. And two strings can contain the same contents, but not actually be the same object. Hence, you cannot compare strings with ==. You have to use the equals() method.

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