Method/If Statement, dereference error

[scottmulla]

im trying to perform this method/if statement

private void displayCurrentPlayer(int currentPlayer) {
		if (currentPlayer.equals(USER_NUMBER)) {
			System.out.println("Computer's turn to play.");
		} else {
			System.out.println("User's turn to play.");
		}
	}

however when i try and compile it says

A1Stage02.java:193: int cannot be dereferenced
		if (currentPlayer.equals(USER_NUMBER)) {
		                 ^
1 error

Any suggestions/help???
Much appreciated thanks.

[sunde887]

.equals compares strings, numbers are compared with ==.

[scottmulla]

awesome cheers mate!

[sunde887]

You are welcome, please mark your thread solved with the thread tools at the top.

[Tolls]

.equals compares strings, numbers are compared with ==.

To be more precise, equals() compares Objects.

[DarrylBurke]

And primitives OR references can be compared with ==

db

[pbrockway2]

"The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects" but is overridden however a class thinks fit so long as it "implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references".

Equivalence leaves rather a lot of arbitrary wiggle room: things can be quite different and yet be considered equal. As Anatole France observed, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread".