Comparing strings in EL

Question

I'm giving a User object to JSP and want to compare an attribute of the user with a given String. What I'm doing right now is the following:

<input type="radio" name="lang" value="ger" <c:if test="${user.comLanguage.equals("ger")}">checked="yes"</c:if>/>German</br>

But all I get is the following Exception:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/library/home.jsp (line: 22, column: 95) equal symbol expected

where column 95 is one of the letters of comLanguage.

What's the correct syntax here?

Your initial syntax will by the way work if you're using EL 2.2. and use singlequotes instead of doublequotes inside the method call. — BalusC, Dec 02 '11 at 13:56

StKiller · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-02T11:50:32.813

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Try this :

<c:if test="${user.comLanguage=='ger'}">

Also you can try ternary if:

${user.comLanguage=='ger' ? 'checked' : ''}

edited Dec 02 '11 at 11:50

answered Dec 02 '11 at 11:34

StKiller

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+1. Or, instead of ==, the eq keyword does the same thing – Sean Patrick Floyd Dec 02 '11 at 11:40
Seems like EL uses Java objects but not all its methods. Thank you. – whitehat Apr 15 '15 at 21:46

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