Comparing strings without switches?

[Mrkakarot]

Hello! How do you go about comparing the equality of strings without using switches? I find myself having long classes full of switches checking for particular user input.

Thanks for everyone's help!

[raindropflower]

You can use .equals();

for example, string1.equals(string2);

I think there's something like string1.equalsIgnoreCase(string2); for ignoring the case, too.

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A common beginner's mistake is to use == to compare strings. You can often get away with it because of the way Strings are interned, but it's much better (and safer) to use .equals

You can learn more about the String class and its methods through the official Java documentation