I have looked online and all of the tutorials / questions have pointed me to this. I can't see why this isn't working. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks import java.util.*; public class test { static Scanner userInput = new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { String textEntered = userInput.next(); if (textEntered == "hello") { System.out.println("Hello to you too!"); } } } I enter "hello" but nothing is printed. Also I have tried next() and nextLine();