boolean statement in do loop not workling for string

**Gcode** · January 27th, 2022, 07:29 PM

Please tell this beginning coder why this do loop runs infinitely. It's supposed to break out into the switch statement when the user enters a "y" but it keeps looping no matter what. Thanks

public static boolean YesNo (String query) {

Scanner localScanner = new Scanner(System.in); // Create a Scanner object

boolean temp = false;
String c = "Y";
do {
System.out.print(query);
c = localScanner.next();
c = c.toUpperCase();
} while (c != "Y"); //THIS DOESN'T WORK

switch (c) {
case "Y":
temp = true;
case "N":
temp = false;
}

return temp;
}

**Norm** · January 27th, 2022, 08:10 PM

Use the equals method to compare the contents of two String objects.

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**ranjithgowdhaman** · May 1st, 2022, 02:13 PM

Just my recommendation. Dont need to convert to uppercase.
The equalsIgnoreCase() method compares two strings, ignoring lower case and upper case differences

**AngleWyrm** · July 15th, 2022, 08:29 PM

  static Boolean getAnswer(){
    System.out.print("Shall we continue? ");
 
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
    String  input   = scanner.nextLine();
 
    if( input.toUpperCase().contains("Y") ){
      return true;
    }
    return false;
 
  } // getAnswer

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