Thread: problems with equals method.

When i use the following code, the equals mehod return true if i use numbers , if i use a string as given in the code the method always returns false what could be the reason. The store.txt file contains the following lines as given. If i give the equal string as 1000 the match is produced and if i give as kp or kkn the output always states no match .


store.txt
kp
1000
kkn
500

[code=java]
import java.io.*;
class home
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
try{
// Open the file that is the first
// command line parameter
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("store.txt");
// Get the object of DataInputStream
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String strLine;
int value=0;
//Read File Line By Line
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)
{
// Print the content on the console

System.out.println (strLine);
if(strLine.equals("kp"))
{
System.out.println("Match found");

value = Integer.parseInt(strLine);
value=value+100;
System.out.println(value);
}
else
System.out.println("No match");
}
//Close the input stream
in.close();
}
catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}



}
}
[/code=java]

Plz help me out