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Java String.equals versus ==

I am writing a program to simulate the hare and turtle race!
I am using getName() to see which objects thread is executing and based on that i increment the objects value. This is my code:

public void run()
{
    try{
    for(int i=0;i<100;i++)

    {
                System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
        if(Thread.currentThread().getName() == "HARE")
        {

            hare++;
            System.out.println("hare thread");
            Thread.sleep(100);
            if(hare ==  49) 
            {
                Thread.sleep(2000);
            }   
        }
        if(Thread.currentThread().getName() == "TURTLE")
        {
            turtle++;
            Thread.sleep(250);  
        System.out.println("Turtle Thread");

        }

The problem is that even thought it detects the name of the thread accurately but it never goes inside the if block.
P.S I am new to java multithreading.
Thank you for going through the code.

Answer 1

Thread.currentThread().getName() == "HARE"

you can not compare string in this way.

Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("HARE");

the equals method is case sensitive.