Question

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class project{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        do{
            try {
                URL c = new URL("http://localhost/Upload2/c.txt");
                URL cinfo = new URL("http://localhost/Upload2/cinfo.txt");
                Scanner c2 = new Scanner(c.openStream());
                Scanner cinfo2 = new Scanner(cinfo.openStream());
                String c3 = c2.nextLine();
                String cinfo3 = cinfo2.nextLine();
                if ("commandline".compareTo(c3) == 0){
                    Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cinfo3);
                    if ("idle".compareTo(c3) == 0){
                        System.out.println("Waiting for a command.");
                    }
                    if ("print".compareTo(c3) == 0){
                        System.out.println(cinfo3);
                    }
                }
            }
            catch(IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        } while(true);
    }
}

This is my current code. However, none of the if statements work! For example, even when the text file says “idle”, nothing happened! I even tried to print the value of the text file and it worked (it said idle).

Answer 1

The first if: if ("commandline"...) encapsulates the following 2 of them inside. This means that if the first if evaluates to false, the following ones will never execute.