Simple fix?

[AlleDingeAndern]

I'm obviously doing something wrong, seeing as I'm getting errors. But, what exactly am I doing wrong? Am I using the OR operator incorrectly?

This is for a conversational program I'm testing my skills in.

System.out.println("Hey! nice of you to join me! How are you?");
if (response.equals ("bad" || "Bad")){
System.out.println("I'm sorry to hear that. Why so?");}

That's the only place I'm getting an error. any idea why?
Help gladly appreciated. Sorry to bother.

[Junky]

that is not correct syntax for Java. You need to write two separate conditions, one for each version of "bad".

[Junky]

Or you can use the equalsIgnoreCase method.

[Fubarable]

You need to make all expressions valid boolean expressions.

if (response.equals("foo") ||response.equals("bar")) {

}

[Vase]

What kind of error are you getting? Off the bat, I see that you have nothing actually going into your "response" variable.

you can also do

response.equalsIgnoreCase("bad")

That way the user can type "bad", "bAD", Bad", etc. and it will still return true.

[AlleDingeAndern]

I was just about to post an error message, but all is now well. Thanks for the help, and once again, sorry to bug you guys.

[AlleDingeAndern]

Oh hey, is there anyway for me to make it so if the user inputs something like:
not tooo badd
the program just takes keywords, like not too bad, and goes based off of that? Everyone types different and I won't feel accomplished if I couldn't implement this for everyone.

[Vase]

Without manually correcting the strings based on what you think they meant, you cannot really do that. Everyone types different, but different is wrong.

[AlleDingeAndern]

Okay, so if someone said "nothing important", and the only option was "nothing", there would be no way to display the "nothing" message?