Thread: Logical operators don't seem to work in a very basic class

I'm starting out in Java

I produced the following class to test switch and conditional operators:

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import java.util.Scanner;


public class TestingSwitchThenConditionals {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Enter password ");

String password = input.nextLine();


switch (password)
{
case "Paris" : System.out.println("Correct");
System.out.println("you're in");
break;

case "London" : System.out.println("Almost");
break;

default: System.out.println("No entry!!!");

}

for (double count = 1;count <=5; count++)
{
System.out.printf("%25s to the power of %.0f = %.0f\n", count, count , Math.pow(count, count));
if ((count>=2) && (password == "London") )
{
System.out.printf("%s\n", password);
}
}
}
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When I use the && conditional it doesn't seem to 'work' in the sense that if I enter the password as London the contents of the if statement are ignored even when count is >=2

When I use the ^ conditional & enter London as the password I was expecting the if statement to execute only if count = 1 i.e only 1 of the operands is true & the other false (I'm using Java, How to Program 9th ed, p 226 for definition of ^ which tells me that BOTH operands are evaluated)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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After that have a look at the java api for the string class and see what it has to say about comparing string objects.