Why does this code taking input of string and outputting an int not work? Java

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I
thought this would be a neat way of structuring a picker method but the output is not
going to the first two if statements and only outputs the
last

 public int
            myPickerMethod(){

 System.out.println("please select from the
            options ");
 System.out.println("please select 1 for option 1 ");

            System.out.println("please select 2 please select 2 for option 2");
 String
            input = keyboard.readLine();
 System.out.println("input = " + input);
            


 if(input=="1"){

 return
            1;
 }
 else if(input=="2"){
 return 2;

            }
 else{
 return 42;
 }


            }

Here is my result
from the terminal:

 please select
            from the options 
 please select 1 for option 1 
 please select 2
            please select 2 for option 2
 1
 input = 1


            response = 42

Same
goes if I put 2 in. the "response" print statement is the output from the method from a
print statement in the main class.

I have not
tried this way before but I figured it should work. I don't really get why it isn't.
Anyone able to clear this up? Thanks

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class="normal">Answer

For
testing Object (non-primitive type) equality, use
Object.equals().

if(input.equals("1"))
            {


 return
            1;
}

The
== operator checks whether the references to the objects are
equal. A test for reference equality is done within the String.equals()
method, among other checks. Below is the Java source for the
String.equals()
method:

public boolean
            equals(Object anObject) {
 if (this == anObject) { // Reference
            equality
 return true;

 }
 if (anObject
            instanceof String) {
 String anotherString = (String)anObject;
 int
            n = count;
 if (n == anotherString.count) { // Are the strings the same
            size?
 char v1[] = value;
 char v2[] =
            anotherString.value;
 int i = offset;
 int j =
            anotherString.offset;
 while (n-- != 0) {

 if (v1[i++] !=
            v2[j++]) // Compare each character
 return false;
 }

            return true;
 }
 }
 return
            false;
}