String variable may not have been initialized (error diects to line 34)

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the string initialize, but to no avail. I have tried all of the solutions I have come across and I am not sure whether it is because of my ineptness or

Answer 1

You can initialize the values of Strings in two ways:

String abc = "I love basketball";

or

String abc = new String("I love basketball");  

What you are seeing is a warning and not an error. If you insist on not putting a value into the String, just do

String abc = null;    

or

String abc = ""  

In the latter case, your String is initialized to the characters between the quotations. Nothing, basically, but it is not null.

To avoid potential NPE problems, compare the Strings as follows:

"rock".equalsIgnoreCase(playerChoice);