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Thread: out of range help.

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    Default out of range help.

    I am having a problem. When i input "na" into the textfield it should output na but instead what its doing is giving me a out of range error of 3. My thinking is that it shouldnt do that because the else statment doesnt happen because add0 = "na". What i need it to do: When i enter na it should write to file as na and when i enter 8 numbers it should run the iName variable. This is my code that i have tried i just need to know what i have done wrong.

     
    String add0 = newn.getText();
    String non = "na";
     
                if(add0=="na"){
                    out.write(non.getBytes());
                }else{
                     String iName = ("Updated Number: " + add0.substring(0, 3) + "-" + add0.substring(3, 5) + "-" + add0.substring(5) + newLine);
                        out.write(iName.getBytes());
                }


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    Default Re: out of range help.

    Use the equals() method for comparing Strings, not the == operator.

    The code should test the length of the String it is working on before assuming it is long enough for the substring method.
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