Question

am trying to get an if else if statement to operate but am getting an error when using it please see the program below thanks

public class Info {

  public static void main(String [] args){
    Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("Enter employee num");
    int e_num=input.nextInt();
    System.out.print("Enter employee first name");
    String e_fname=input.next();
    System.out.print("Enter employee surname");
    String e_sname=input.next();
    System.out.print("Enter employee code C or c,H or h and F or f");
    char e_code = input.next().charAt(0);

   if(e_code==F||e_code==f){
       e_code==monthly_paid;
   }            
 }
}

Answer 1

I suspect you’re just looking for character literals to compare your variable against:

if (e_code == 'F' || e_code == 'f')

(The spacing isn’t required – it’s just for readability…)

On the other hand, given that you’ve got a fixed set of options, you may well want a switch/case instead.

This doesn’t look ideal though:

e_code==monthly_paid;

What’s monthly_paid here? Why would you want to change the variable representing the code entered by the user into something that sounds like an amount of money?