in if condition arraylist .startsWith not correct working-CodePudding

could someone tell me why my if statement with .startsWith is true even though the String (booking) does not start with A? And how to fix it, if possible. thanks in advance!

  List<Film> filmList = new ArrayList<>();
        filmList.add(new Film("Batman", "2D", "20:15", "Room 1", "Available"));
        filmList.add(new Film("Batman Returns", "3D", "22:30", "Room 1", "Available"));
        filmList.add(new Film("Batman Returns Again", "3D", "20:15", "Room 2", "Available"));
        filmList.add(new Film("Batman Never Dies", "2D", "23:30", "Room 2", "Booked Out"));

        //printing movie list
        for (Film film : filmList) {
            System.out.println(film.name   " | "   film.quality   " | "   film.time   " | "   film.room   " | "   film.booking);
        }

        //picking movie
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Choose a movie that you want to see!");
        String filmPick = scan.next().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);

        Film pickedfilm = null;
        for (Film film : filmList) {
            if (film.name.equalsIgnoreCase(filmPick) && film.booking.toLowerCase().startsWith("a")) {
                pickedfilm = film;
                System.out.println("Your booking was successfully");
            } else {
                System.out.println("No movie found!");
            }
            break;
        }

//class

class Film {
    public String name;
    public String quality;
    public String time;
    public String room;
    public String booking;

    public Film(String name, String quali, String time, String room, String booking) {
        this.name = name;
        this.quality = quali;
        this.time = time;
        this.room = room;
        this.booking = booking;
    }

CodePudding user response：

You should read nextLine. next() method finds and returns the next complete token from this scanner. A complete token is preceded and followed by the input that matches the delimiter pattern.

Whenever you are adding "Batman Never Dies", it read "Batman", and your for-loop will conclude this is present.

replace this line

String filmPick = scan.next().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);

with this:-

 String filmPick = scan.nextLine().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);