If else statement does not read user input

Question

Whenever the user input is 1 or Jan, the code does not read and jump to second statement and display

Invalid month has been entered

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("Enter a month:  ");

        String month=in.nextLine();


        if((month == "1") || (month == "Jan")){

            System.out.println("Month: January");
        }
        else{
            System.out.println("Invalid month has been entered");

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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With Strings, use "equals" instead of ==.

if(("1".equals(month)) || ("Jan".equals(month)))

This is needed because Strings are not primitive types, but a special kind of Objects in Java.

You can check the following for more info: What is the difference between == vs equals() in Java?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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