lopping problem2

I have a problem in my program where it seems that even though the conditions for an if loop are true, it goes to the "else" anyway.

the application is quite large so i'll just post the segment which doesn't work, however if you want the full code i have no problems posting that either.

for the purpose of this, lets just say all the variables are strings. aa is "abcde", aa2 is "abcde" and theText is "abcde". I have tried the if conditions with "if theText.equals(aa) || etc..."

That doesn't work either. as you can see, in the else part i print the values of the strings. Only either aa or aa2 will have a value, not both, so one is always blank.

if((theText.compareTo(aa) < 0) || (theText.compareTo(aa2) < 0)){

System.out.println("If in loop, this message will appear, then application will exit.");

System.exit(0);

}

else{

System.out.println(aa);

System.out.println(aa2);

System.out.println(aa2.compareTo(theText));

System.out.println(theText);

JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"Are you sure you want to exit without saving?","Exit", JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);

}

This is the output i get:

(blank space) in this case i had given a value to aa2.

abcde

-1

abcde

So, this confirms that both the strings are equal to each other, and the compareTo method returns -1. So tell me, why doesn't it just go to the if loop?

[1706 byte] By [Adam123a] at [2007-11-27 5:04:30]