keyListener problem

Hello. I have made an keyListener. But it dosent work as I whant to. The problem is that I never make a match into my "if". Any idea why?

// the key listener class where I convert the char to an String

publicvoid keyPressed(KeyEvent e){

perf.key(e.getKeyChar()+"");

view.repaint();

}

// the key method and it never go into my first "if" statement. Why?

publicvoid key(String str){

if(str =="q"){

array[0][0] ="a";

}

// always just gets here and put in a "b"

else array[0][0] ="b";

}

Thanks in advance!

[1145 byte] By [Hunter78a] at [2007-11-27 6:31:31]