Question

public void onMessage(String channel, String sender, String login, String hostname, String message) {
    if (message.toLowerCase().startsWith("!up")) {
        String[] args = message.split(" ");
        String pass = "password";
        if (args[1] == pass){
            op(channel, sender);
            sendMessage(channel, sender+": you now have op");
        }else{
            sendMessage(channel, sender+ " incorrect pass");
            sendMessage(channel, "" +args[1]);
        }
        }
    }

this is supposed to check if the user enters !up password
no matter what i do, it always says password incorrect. what did I do wrong?

Answer 1

Use String#equals instead of == to compare strings.

So instead of:

if (args[1] == pass) {
   ...
}

You should use:

if (args[1].equals(pass)) {
   ...
}