String comparison not working 1

[EwS]

I'm trying to compare two strings a and b. When I inspect the variables in Eclipse I see the following:

a 
value=char[6]
[0]=t
[1]=e
[2]=s
[3]=t
[4]= 
[5]= 

b
value=char[4]
[0]=t
[1]=e
[2]=s
[3]=t

When I do a comparison if (a == b), the if condition is never met. If I hard-code a="test", then the condition is met. What do I have to do so that the condition is met without hard-coding anything?
Thank you.

 

[TonHu]

the == compares pointers to each other, not the strings, use value.compareTo() or value.compareToIgnoreCase methods for comparing the contents of strings

HTH
TonHu

 

[EwS]

Thanks, I totally forgot about this.

 

[Diancecht]

I'd use equals, that returns a boolean value.

Cheers,
Dian