How can i broadcastMessage() and exclude specific players?

I have a plugin im making, and its for emoting. For example

player 1: /derp player2
to player 1: you derped player2!
to player2: player2 derped you!
to everyone else: player1 derped player2!

However, i need to exclude that broadcast from showing to player1 and player2. How would i do this?

 

for(Player p:Server.getOnlinePlayers()) {
if(p!=player1||p!=player2)p.sendMessage(message):
}
not im half asleep so this amay have bugs

 

Perfect, appreciate it!

 

ok now that im awake dont use != use !(p.equals(player1))

 

Where is the difference between != and equals?

 

You use == (and !=) for comparing REFERENCES, NOT VALUES.
Generally, you should only use == for primitive data types, checking if the object IS THE SAME OBJECT as the 2nd one and comparing 2 enum values.

.equals() compares VALUES.
o.equals(o) method can be over-written when creating a new object, so it can be compared differently.
You generally want to use this for Objects, such as Strings or custom objects.

 

i just want to add that o.equals(o2) is different from o==o2 only if the class that o belongs to overrides equals

 

You are correct, but this way of stating it may be misleading. If your class doesn't override equals(), then equals() and == are equivalent comparisons, but both are now comparing REFERENCES, still not comparing VALUES.

Two different object instances with exactly the same state internally are not seen as equal, unless the class overrides equals() and compares the internal state of both objects for their values.

 

ok thats more corrcet then what i said