title: Converting this bufferedreader to string
body: <p>I am trying to convert this buffered reader to a string but for some reasong the if statement will not recognize the first letter as a string</p>
  
  <pre><code>BufferedReader userInputMessage = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
  message = userInputMessage.readLine();
  
  firstLetter = message.substring(0,1);
  
  System.out.println("FirstLetter: " + firstLetter + "/");
  message = message.substring(1);
  System.out.println("Message: " + message + "/");
  
  if(!firstLetter.equals("0") || !firstLetter.equals("1")){
      System.out.println("First letter not valid!");
  }
  </code></pre>