Not able to compare string entered from Input Dialog with a different string in Groovy

Question

Below is my code:

def readln = javax.swing.JOptionsPane.&showInputDialog
def env = readln 'Which environment you want to test'

I entered input as syst

While i am comparing this is what i am doing

if("$env".equalsIgnoreCase("syst")){
some code
}

also tried many other ways to compare like

if($env.equalsIgnoreCase("syst"))
if(env.equalsUIgnoreCase("syst"))
if("${'env'}".equalsIgnoreCase("syst"))

but none of the above working , the condition is not satisfied. How to compare the string declared with a string entered from dialog box?

cfrick · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-24 22:19:07Z

1

first - the classname JOptionsPane is wrong (it's JOptionPane - without the s)

below is the working code.

you can run it from groovy console.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane

def readln = JOptionPane.&showInputDialog
def env = readln 'Which environment you want to test'
if(env=='syst'){
    println "EQUALS"
}
if('syst'.equalsIgnoreCase(env)){
    println "EQUALS equalsIgnoreCase 1"
}
if(env.equalsIgnoreCase('syst')){
    println "EQUALS equalsIgnoreCase 2"
}
if("${env}".equalsIgnoreCase('syst')){
    println "EQUALS equalsIgnoreCase 3"
}

all 4 comparisons works fine.

however 'syst'.equalsIgnoreCase(env) is preferable if you'd like to compare ignoring case.

because the env could be null at this point

edited Dec 24, 2018 at 22:19

cfrick

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answered Dec 24, 2018 at 0:07

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lGSMl · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-23 21:23:43Z

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try expand it directly to a string as - "${env}"

answered Dec 23, 2018 at 21:23

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4 Comments

lGSMl Over a year ago

not "equals", in groovy this is very badly implemented and will return false in between String and GString, try to use ==

lGSMl Over a year ago

you can refer to this topic in that stackoverflow.com/questions/9682206/…

Ram Over a year ago

i am not sure why but still this is not working if("${env}" == "syst")

Ram Over a year ago

ohh yeah, its working, i had something else failing , '==' is perfectly working.

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