java - Trying to read from text file using string.split -

i'm trying read through text file can find book name , output attributes, im getting wierd results. help?

this code:

                system.out.print( "enter name of book: " );                 input2 = scanner.nextline();                 this.setname(input2);                 string bookname = getinfo.readline();                 int = 0, num = 0;                  while(bookname != null)                 {                     string[] booknames = bookname.split("|");                     i++;                     for(int j = (i*4-4); j<(i*4); j++)                     {                         if (booknames[j] == this.name){                             num = 1;                          }                     }                     if(num == 1){                         system.out.println(bookname);                         num = 0;                     }                     bookname = getinfo.readline();                 } 

this file :

candy mang|doodle|4586|45.0|

cradle|michael|1111|1.0|

this output:

press 1 add book, , 2 find book.

2

how search book?

1

enter name of book: candy mang

c

a

n

d

l

e

|

exit?

c

| in regular expression used alternator(or). splitting "|" same splitting "" means split each character. that's reason have multiple character output. escape special symbol "\\|"

observation :

do not compare 2 objects using == have done booknames[j] == this.name. instead use booknames[j].equals(this.name);