# If equality not workin properly

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [March 12, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627 "2020-03-12T21:57:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![LixoEletronico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LixoEletronico](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LixoEletronico)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627/1 "2020-03-12T21:57:48Z")

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![WhatsApp Image 2020-03-12 at 18.27.13](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/5/5d66de4214ded919c5fb9207d81e0e958ad1edcc.jpeg)

i can’t find anything wrong here

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### Author: ![LixoEletronico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LixoEletronico](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LixoEletronico)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627/2 "2020-03-12T21:58:26Z")

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![WhatsApp Image 2020-03-12 at 18.55.05](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/4/427fc1553c9d2b529c9f72106f883bbb7a349d39.jpeg)

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### Author: ![GoToLoop](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/gotoloop/32/86_2.png) [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627/3 "2020-03-12T23:28:42Z")

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[Processing.org/reference/String\_equals\_.html](http://Processing.org/reference/String_equals_.html)

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### Author: ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/if-equality-not-workin-properly/18627/4 "2020-03-17T00:41:39Z")

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Hi @LixoEletronico – welcome to the forum, and glad that you found an answer!

For future questions, please don’t paste images of code – paste in your code as plain text and use `</>` or ``` to [format your code](https://discourse.processing.org/faq#format-your-code). That will help us to help you.