Basic C# question regarding strings and if statements

Question

Hello everyone. I'm trying to make a console application in C#. It's just a very basic program. It asks the user to input some text and it will give a response based on this. The program also has to make sure that Java java JAVA jaVA etc. are all the same. This is my code so far: http://pastebin.me/490eb15ca27f1 I am not sure whether answer.Equals works for this case. The compiler is giving errors. It says it expects a ( and a ) somewhere around every 'answer' word. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Alan · Answer

To deal with varying capitalization I'd convert 'answer' to lower case and then just test the result against the lower case variants of the possible strings. The other problem you have is that to test for equality you need to use the == operator. The = operator is used for assignment: string answer; string java; java = java; Console.WriteLine(Java C Cobol or Python?); answer = Console.ReadLine(); answer = answer.ToLower(); // now lower case if (answer == java){ Console.WriteLine(Java text); } else if (answer == c){ Console.WriteLine(C text); } else if (answer == cobol){ Console.WriteLine(Cobol text); } else if (answer == python){ Console.WriteLine(Python text); } else Console.WriteLine(x); Console.ReadLine();

n · Answer

I played with this a bit more and now got the following: http://pastebin.me/490ebf5b71a55 The compiler now says that there's still an error with the (answer = java) etc. 'Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'bool'.