If string does not match a number of strings problem

[Interista]

I'm putting the finishing touches to a program. I have put this as an else statement but have noticed that in that case, if the shape matches one of the first two options (circle, rectangle), the program works perfectly (works out the area of both) but then puts this final error message. With triangle it doesn't happen (so the else if obviously linking to the triangle if).

I was wondering if there was a way to work out if a string does not equal pre-defined strings. I have worked out this much myself, and think it may work in the case of !shape.equalsIgnoreCase(circle), but how do I get it to check multiple times (for the three options)

if (!shape.equalsIgnoreCase(circle || rectangle || triangle)) //if shape string doesn't equal the shapes strings
					{ //open if
					JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "I don't recognise the shape " + shape + " cannot work out the area."); //Print message
					} //close if

[eRaaaa]

String shape = "triangle";
		String circle = "circle", rectangle = "rectangle", triangle = "triangle";
		if (!Arrays.asList(circle, rectangle, triangle).contains(shape.toLowerCase())) {
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "I don't recognise the shape "+ shape + " cannot work out the area.");
		}

or you can use a regex :D

		if (!Pattern.compile("circle|rectangle|triangle", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(shape).find()) {
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "I don't recognise the shape "+ shape + " cannot work out the area.");
		}

or shorter ->

	if (!shape.matches("(?i)triangle|rectangle|circle")) {

[Interista]

Thanks! That's great!