Comparing strings in EL [duplicate]

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• How to compare two object variables in EL expression language? 2 answers

I'm giving a User object to JSP and want to compare an attribute of the user with a given String. What I'm doing right now is the following:

<input type="radio" name="lang" value="ger" <c:if test="${user.comLanguage.equals("ger")}">checked="yes"</c:if>/>German</br>

But all I get is the following Exception:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/library/home.jsp (line: 22, column: 95) equal symbol expected

where column 95 is one of the letters of comLanguage.

What's the correct syntax here?

Answer 1

Try this :

<c:if test="${user.comLanguage=='ger'}">

Also you can try ternary if:

${user.comLanguage=='ger' ? 'checked' : ''}