String.equals versus ==

This code separates a string into tokens and stores them in an array of strings, and then compares a variable with the first home ... why isn't it working?

public static void main(String...aArguments) throws IOException {

    String usuario = "Jorman";
    String password = "14988611";

    String strDatos = "Jorman 14988611";
    StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(strDatos, " ");
    int nDatos = tokens.countTokens();
    String[] datos = new String[nDatos];
    int i = 0;

    while (tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
        String str = tokens.nextToken();
        datos[i] = str;
        i++;
    }

    //System.out.println (usuario);

    if ((datos[0] == usuario)) {
        System.out.println("WORKING");
    }
}

Use the string.equals(Object other) function to compare strings, not the == operator.

The function checks the actual contents of the string, the == operator checks whether the references to the objects are equal. Note that string constants are usually "interned" such that two constants with the same value can actually be compared with ==, but it's better not to rely on that.

if (usuario.equals(datos[0])) {
    ...
}

NB: the compare is done on 'usuario' because that's guaranteed non-null in your code, although you should still check that you've actually got some tokens in the datos array otherwise you'll get an array-out-of-bounds exception.

Stack Overflow Q#767372, score: 611