Incompatible types required boolean found string

Question

I am trying to set a value for a variable called Location when ever the value for the location is "AFRICA"
I need to reset it to be "55555".
What I am getting is that 'Incompatible types required boolean found string' under the if statemant. Can anyone shade some light on this?
String Location = filename.substring(12,17);
String AP = "AFRICA";
System.out.println(Location);
if (Location = AP)
System.out.println(Location);
Location = "55555";
thanks

Answer 1

rp0428 wrote:
The IF condition needs to be a BOOLEAN. The '=' is used to do an assignment. The boolean would be '=='.
But to compare strings why aren't you using
if (Location.equalsIgnoreCase(AP) {
To stress this a little more:
<tt>==</tt> applied between References will compare the Adresses they point to. This means this will only be true if both References point to the identical Object. @Test
testStringEquality(){
   String s1 = "my Test"
   String s2 = "Test"
  Assert.assertTrue("This strings are equal",s1.equals("my "+s2));
  Assert.assertFalse("This strings are not identical",s1 == ("my "+s2));
}So use <tt>==</tt> only for primitive number types (those starting with a lower case letter).
bye
TPD