Help: Program not doing what it's supposed to

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Ergh, that caught me out when I first used Java. It was my first time meeting a high-level language that didn't have an overloaded equality/inequality operator on a string class to do a string compare (and I still find it quite stupid, why would you ever want to compare the memory address of a string literal? It will never match anything else).

In java, strings are objects. So whenever you have a string literal (anything inside the "s), it's really pointing to that literal.

Also, nevets, whoever told you to shorten your variable names is a retard.