Java comparing string to regex - while loop

Question

I want the user to enter a string and if the string does not match my regex expression then I want a message to be outputted and the user to enter a value again.

The pro

Answer 1

The equals methods checks for string equivalence, not for matching regular expressions.

Just replace equals with matches. You should also remove the outer square brackets.

Answer 2

Could it be that your regexp is wrong?

test.matches("[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*,\\s[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*")

works fine for me.