False boolean = True?

Question

I found this code in a book and I executed it in Netbeans:

boolean b = false;
if(b = true) {
    System.out.println(\"true\");
} else {
    System.out.printl         


        

Answer 1

This is because the if-statement condition isn't a comparison. It's an assignment:

if(b = true)

Which will always return true. So it will always print true.

If you wanted to do a comparison, you need to use ==.