[thelist] JSP fumbling.....

[Chris Johnston]

Basically what you are asking for is whether the two strings are the
same object, which obviously they are not.

What you need to use is something like HTTPMethod.equals("POST") to see
if the two strings are equal in value.

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 21:39, Anthony Baratta wrote:
> Why does this *always* evaluate to false??
>
>    String HTTPMethod = request.getMethod();
>    if (HTTPMethod == "POST") {
>       System.out.println("True");
>    } else {
>       System.out.println("False");
>    }
>
> Yet
>
>       System.out.println(HTTPMethod);
>
> On a form submit prints POST.
>
> I'm stumped.
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> Anthony Baratta
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>
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Chris Johnston <chris at fuzzylizard.com>
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