.equalsIgnoreCase 1

[jeak]

The following is my code for a simple program I am doing. I'm not sure why the line containing .equalsIgnoreCase isn't working. Does anyone have any suggestions?


import javax.swing.*;


public class Assignment4
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null, "Greetings!"

String playerOne = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Player 1, please enter your name: "

String playerTwo = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Player 2, please enter your name: "

String word = JOptionPane.showInputDialog (playerOne + ", please enter a word: "

int stringLength = word.length();//Declaring variables

char lastChar = word.charAt(stringLength - 1);
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(playerTwo + ", please enter a word starting with letter " + lastChar + ":"
char firstChar = word.charAt(0);

if (lastChar.equalsIgnoreCase(firstChar)){
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(playerTwo + ", please enter a word starting with letter " + lastChar + ":"
}

else{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null, playerOne + "WON!"
}

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null, "Click \"OK\" to end program."
String junk;
junk = SavitchIn.readLine();//Ending Program

System.exit(0);
}
}

 

[godcomplex]

That does not work because firstChar and lastChar are not Strings, they're chars. If you need to use that method try your conditional statement like this:

if( ( "" + lastChar ).equalsIgnoreCase( ( "" + firstChar ) ) )

-gc "I don't look busy because I did it right the first time."