Try if (pwsd.equals(""))
*or*
if (pwsd.trim().equals(""))
these should work.
regds
-mukul
At 05:08 PM 1/12/00 MST, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a problem in a servlet which i wrote.
>
>The servlet accepts a username and password from a HTML form.
>
>I am accessing the same using getParameter function in the doGet function.
>
>String pwsd = request.getParamater("PASSWORD");
>
>To check if the user pressed the submit button without entering the password,
>I tried
>if (pswd==null) {//show the login page again with a error message}
>
>The program does not enter this if loop .
>(The string pswd is getting assigned a value if i do enter the password in
the
>HTML form)
>
>Am i missing something?
>
>Harish
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