Noobie simple question with || operator

Question

while(!keyb.nextLine().equalsIgnoreCase("y" || "n"))
keyb is my Scanner variable -- i know its kinda stupid but it's late and I feel dumb atm
its not letting me put the || "n" part in...maybe something is wrong with the syntax?
Edited by: sheky on Sep 12, 2008 6:31 PM

Answer 1

This line of code has two basic concept errors.
The || operator, is applied to booleans
logicalValue || logicalValue"y" and "n" are Strings not booleans and the || operation is not allowed.
The second error is that, the result of a || operation is a boolean and the equalsIgnoreCase method expect a Object as parameter, to call its toString() method and compare it to the associated String.
What you probably want is:
String answer;
do {
    answer = keyb.nextLine();
} while( ! (answer.equalsIgnoreCase("y") || answare.equalsIgnoreCase("n") );