why cant i get out of this while loop?

Question

our project basically involves reading files about the premier league and returning 1. outcomes of games played, 2. fixtures yet to be played and 3. the leaderboard(table). I'm displaying a menu in the command line and also taking in the user input from there. I'm using a while loop to match the userinput with what output to display but I wanted to say if they don't enter 1,2 or 3 that there's an error and to display the menu again and ask them to enter another input. However now if I do enter 1,2 or 3, it doesn't display my results I can't get out of the while loop. Can anyone help me? This is my code!

while(userInput == false)
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String pattern = "[1-3]{1}";
        String userChoice;
        System.out.println(menuOptions);
        userChoice = input.nextLine();
        if(userChoice == "1")
        {
            System.out.print(outcomesResults);
            userInput = true;
        }
        if(userChoice == "2")
        {
            System.out.print(fixturesResults);
            userInput = true;
        }
        if(userChoice == "3")
        {
            System.out.print(leaderboardResults);
            userInput = true;
        }
        else if(!userChoice.matches(pattern))
        {
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("Error: unidentified selection. Please choose 1,2 or 3");
            userInput = false;
        }
    }

Answer 1

If you want to compare the String value, you should use equals():

if (userChoice.equals("1")) {
   // do something
}