Thread: illegal character: \8206???

my head is wrecked i have code below the if is fine but the else if throws error at bottom

String var="";
String laninsert="";
if(var.equals("Namibia")|var.equals("South Africa")){
        laninsert="no,af,en-us";
}else if (var.equals("Albania"‎‎)|var.equals("Kosovo‎")|var.equals("Spain")){  //this line throws error
        laninsert="no,sq,en-gb";
}

this is the error :

illegal character: \8206
 
illegal character: \8206
 
';' expected

this could just be something stupid thats staring me in the face but aaargh im seeing double at this stage

An 'or' is a double bar, '||'.

    if(var.equals("Namibia")||var.equals("South Africa")){
        laninsert="no,af,en-us";
    }
    if(var.equals("Albania"‎‎)||var.equals("Kosovo‎")||var.equals("Spain")){
        laninsert="no,sq,en-gb";
        }

still give same error thanks alot for reply

Check braces brackets etc...
The snippet shown seems okay, post the rest of the code if you can not find the error

Originally Posted by Junky

A single bar is perfectly fine for an "or".

Usually you get that message if you have copied/paste code from a word processor which uses character codes that the java compiler does not know about.

i think that was the problem i wrote it in gedit and pasted to ide in the end i got fed up and deleted the code and went to bed next day ireworte it and was fine