Thread: searching a string

so for some reason it doesn't run even though i typed it as the book said to do

import javax.swing.*;
 
public class JProject3
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
	    int k,m,x;
	    String Bean;
/*
        for (k=0; k<20; k++)
        {
            System.out.println("The values are\t" + ((k*2)-11));
	    }
 
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println();
 
	    for (k=0; k<20; k++)
	    {
			System.out.println("The values are\t\t" + ((k+1)*101));
	    }
 
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println();
 
	    m = 1;
	    for (k=0; k<20; k++)
	    {
			if (m==1)
			{
				System.out.println("The Values are\t\t\t" + (Math.pow(10,(k+2))));
		    }
		    else
		    {
 
		        System.out.println("The Values are\t\t\t" + (Math.pow(10,k)));
		        k=k-1;
		    }
		    m=m*(-1);
		}
 
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println();
 
		for (k=0; k<20; k++)
		{
			System.out.println("The Values are \t\t\t\t" + ((k+1)*(k+1)*(k+1)));
		}
        System.out.println();
 
        x = 10;
        for (k=0; k<20; k++)
        {
        System.out.println("This works " + Math.round((1/Math.sqrt(5))*((Math.pow(((1+Math.sqrt(5))/2),k))-(Math.pow(((1-Math.sqrt(5))/2),k)))));
	    }
	    */
 
	    Bean = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Give me an input");
	    if ( (searchStr(Bean,f)) == f)
	    {
			System.out.println("AWESOME");
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println("Not Awesome");
		}
 
    }
}

its at the very end of the code where im trying to search an input for f that im running into a problem with.