In Java you can use "if" statements to change behaviour depending on the value of variables or expressions. This is fairly fundamental, so if you're not aware of how to use them I suggest that you go through the Joy of Code videos from the documentation page. (Or, if you know how to use "if" statements already, be clearer on the problem that you currently have).

I have been having a problem with if statements. How do I get a variable to equal a string of text that is entered? This is the code i am having trouble with. It gives me an error saying I cannot convert text to a boolean. Thanks for your help -Joshua

In line 1, you are assigning "Have a nice day" to the variable 'enTxt' -- not asking if one equals the other. The conditional equality symbol is a double equal sign '=='. This can be used to determine if two values or objects are one in the same. Please note, however, that two different String objects, even if containing similar content, are still different strings. Actually, for two objects to be the same object,, both objects being compared must be located at the same memory address on your system. So, even if you had compared the two with: the result will never be true. The reference to 'enTxt' will never be the same as the newly created reference to the literal string. To compare the contents of two different strings for equality, you will need to use the 'equals' method of the String class (inherited from the Object class -- overridden in the String class). This comparison will look like this: