Thread: IF with strings?[Solved]

Hey, complete beginner programmer here, learnt about user input today and decided to mess about. All codes with integers and doubles worked perfectly, but I'm stuck with string. It shows up as incorrect when I write in "Yes", with or without brackets.

I'm guessing there's something more to than just assigning "Yes" to the string ans variable.

Any help would be appreciated!

 package MessingAbout;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class BlueSky {
	public static void main(String[] args){
 
		Scanner rocky = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		String que, ans;
 
		ans = "Yes";
 
		System.out.println("Is the sky blue?");
 
		que = rocky.nextLine();
 
		if (que == ans) {
			System.out.println("Correct!"); }
 
		else {
			System.out.println("Incorrect!"); }
 
		}
	}

Common error. Don't use the equality operator, "==", to compare Strings. Use the equals() method instead.

Searched a few other threads, and found out that you have to use .equals() instead of == when comparing strings, but now I'm getting a syntax error with else.
EDIT: Didn't see your post there Greg, I actually found out that you have to use equals when stumbling upon your response on another thread. But I'm still getting syntax error with else.

package MessingAbout;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class BlueSky {
	public static void main(String[] args){
 
		Scanner rocky = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		String que, ans;
 
		System.out.println("Is the sky blue?");
 
		que = rocky.nextLine();
 
		if (que .equals("Yes") ); {
			System.out.println("Correct!"); }
 
		else {
			System.out.println("Incorrect!") ; }
 
		}
 
		}

When you want help with errors, post them, copied and pasted into your post just as they appear at your end.

Okay, this one's fairly easy. Remove the ':' at the end of the 'if' statement.

Thanks a bunch, it works perfectly now.

Eclipse likes to point out that I'm missing a semicolon but not that I need to remove one.