Thread: counter in loop not incramenting when its suppose to

I have to tell if someone passed a drivers test or not. for some reason in the class the

correctCount

isn't adding when it should so I am always having a return of false and I cant figure out why. Thanks

public class DriverExam
   {
      static String[] correctAnswers={"b","d","a","a","c","a","b","a","c","d","b","c","d","a","d","c","c","b","d","a"};
      static String[] userAnswers=new String[20];
 
   //constructer
      public  DriverExam(String[] user)
      {
         userAnswers=user;
      }
 
 
 
 
   //method to see if you passed
      public static boolean passed()
      {
         boolean pass=false;
         int correctCount=0;
         int incorrectCount=0;
         for(int i=0;i<userAnswers.length;i++)
         {
            if(userAnswers[i]==correctAnswers[i])
            {
               correctCount++;
            }
            else
            {
               incorrectCount++;
            }
         }
 
         if(correctCount>14)
         {pass=true;}
         return pass;
 
      }
 
 
   }

Does your code even compile? If so, what are the errors?

it does compile the only issue I'm having is that my correctCount doesn't count up it stays at 0 so the return is always false

What I've been told is to not use the '==' operator when comparing Strings. Instead to use the equals method from the string class.

that was it thanks