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So I want my Robot to behave differently when the scanned robot it called "RamFire", and I tried doing this:

public void onScannedRobot(ScannedRobotEvent e) {
    if (getName() = "RamFire") {
        // If the robot is called "RamFire" do this
    }
    else {
        // If not, do this
    }
}

But when I try to compile the code it says I made an error:

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I'm new to Robocode and have never programmed with java so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

Rooibo Quallity
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To compare values of variables you use ==
To assign a value to a variable, you use =
So in your case, you want to compare Values, so it should look like this:

if (getName() == "RamFire")

Or better yet, check the name via an equals call. Because strings can differ from each other while having the same content.

new String("RamFire") == new String("RamFire") // returns false
new String("RamFire").equals(new String("RamFire")) // returns true
Valerij Dobler
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