Thread: Beginner problem with "if"

Greetings,
I'm absolute beginner and I'm training a primitive program that ask you for a cookie and if you write "cookie" it shall thank you and if you write anything else, it'll be sad.
But whatever I write, it still says me it's not a cookie..
I'm a bit lost, cannot find anything on internet.. I'll be very glad for respond

Code:

import java.util.Scanner;
 
class cookie {
	public static void main(String[] args){
		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		System.out.println("Insert cookie: ");
		String temp = input.nextLine();
		 if(temp == "cookie"){
			 System.out.println("Thanks, nomnomnom");
		 }else{
			 System.out.println("Not a cookie. :(");
		 }
	}
}

You need to use the equals() method to compare the contents of two Strings, not the == operator.

Yes, that's it! Thanks alot!