What's wrong with this If statement

[jay donald]

Hi,
I'm going crazy with this statement. I am getting a String returned from a method and then checking if it isn't certain value. If it's not, then print something. Here's the code:

 cclass = dataManager.getCustomerClass(orderModel.getAccountNumber());
System.out.println("customer class in cmd is: " + cclass);
if(!(cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("II") || cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("IC"))){
System.out.println("gets the account address");
}   

To my understanding, the above if statement checks to see if cclass is not equal to II or IC and then, prints the statement. But, it's printing the statement even if cclass is IC. I'm really confused. Could someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong. Thanks.
[ March 15, 2006: Message edited by: jay donald ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Code looks fine. Are you sure it's a capital letter "i", and not a vertical bar (|) or lower case letter "L" (l) ?

[Zip Ped]

I agree, the code looks fine.

Try printing out the value of each individual expression - cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("II") , cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("IC") and the expression (cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("II") || cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("IC")) .

[jay donald]

Hi,
Thanks for your response. Yeah It's IC. Ok, this is what i did:

cclass = dataManager.getCustomerClass(orderModel.getAccountNumber());
System.out.println("customer class in cmd is: " + cclass);
boolean result = true ;
result = (cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("II") || cclass.equalsIgnoreCase("IC"));
System.out.println("THe statement is: " + result);    

and guess what ..it's printing false when it should be printing true. Man, i'm going nuts over here.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Is cclass a String?

[jay donald]

Hey Ernest,
yes, it's a String (that's why im using equals()). THis class is part of a web application and i'm using test enviornment of WSAD 5.1.
[ March 15, 2006: Message edited by: jay donald ]

[jay donald]

I finally figured it out. The String i was getting back from the method is a column in a table with a char datatype. So, it was adding a "blank" to the string since the length of that column is defined as 3. So, trim() did the trick. Thanks for your help.