my pins give me 1 all the time !

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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As written, there is nothing to make the pin go High once the connection to Ground is released.

Do this instead:

void setup()
{
    pinMode(button,INPUT);
    digitalWrite (button, HIGH); // turns on internal pullup resistor
    Serial.begin(9600);

}

Now val will reliably = HIGH immeditately whenever the switch is not pressed, and LOW when it is pressed.