Problem exiting program with if statement

[rwgwiccan]

Writing a program that is to end when "stop" is entered in the name field during execution. However, I cannot seem to get it to do so. Code is below:

  public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        
    String cleanInputBuffer;
        
        boolean end = false; // is the input name stop?
        while (end == false) // as long as end is false, proceed
        {
        System.out.print("Enter employee name: ");
        String name = scanner.nextLine();
        
        if (name.toLowerCase() == "stop")
        {
            end = true; // when the stop is detected, change the boolean
      
        }
        System.out.print("Enter number of hours worked in a week: ");
        double hours = scanner.nextDouble();
        
    while (hours < 0) //if a negative number will loop next command
    {
        System.out.print("Enter a positive number of hours worked:"); // prompt
        hours = scanner.nextDouble();
    }
        System.out.print("Enter hourly pay rate (Do not include dollar sign): ");
        double rate = scanner.nextDouble();
        
while (rate < 0) //if a negative number will loop next command
{
    System.out.print ("Enter a positive hourly rate of pay:");
        rate = scanner.nextDouble();
}
  
/* tax rates should be entered as a decimal point i.e. 20% = .20 */
        
        System.out.print("Enter federal tax withholding rate: ");
        double fedTax = scanner.nextDouble();
        
        System.out.print("Enter state tax withholding rate: ");
        double stateTax = scanner.nextDouble();
        
        System.out.println("Employee Name: " + name + ".");
double grossPay;

    grossPay = rate * hours;

double fedwithHolding;

    fedwithHolding = fedTax * grossPay;
    
double statewithHolding;

    statewithHolding = stateTax * grossPay;
    
double deduction;

    deduction = fedwithHolding + statewithHolding;
    
double netPay;

    netPay = grossPay - deduction;
    
System.out.println("The netpay is $"+ netPay +".");

cleanInputBuffer = scanner.nextLine();
    
        } // end outer while

    } // end method main
    
} // end class PayrollProgramPart

[Rabbit]

You never bypass the rest of the code if the user enters stop. Use break to exit out of the loop.

[rwgwiccan]

I'm pretty new to this. Could you give me an example on how to use the command?

[Rabbit]

You should probably look into a java tutorial to learn the basics before taking on projects.

while (condition) {
   if (some other condition) {
      break;
   }
}

[rwgwiccan]

I was trying that but the break wasn't working. I ended up replacing the name.toLowerCas e with name.contentsEq uals() which allowed it to work.

[Killer42]

I'm going to take a wild guess that if you're new to Java, the toLowercase probably didn't work because you used "=" rather than "==".

[rwgwiccan]

No actually. If you look at the code I posted it was "=="

[Killer42]

Whoops! Sorry, could have sworn I read a single one.