/*
* Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/, 1996-2002.
* All rights reserved. Software written by Ian F. Darwin and others.
* $Id: LICENSE,v 1.8 2004/02/09 03:33:38 ian Exp $
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*/
public class Equality {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Equality().run();
}
public void run() {
String x = "hello";
String y = "hello";
// Assuming Equality uses a String constant, this prints true,true
compare(x, y);
// A "new String" is uniquely created, so this prints false, true
compare(x, new String(y));
// The substring operator creates a new String, prints false, true
compare(x, "hello world".substring(0, 5));
// The intern() operator returns a string from the pool of unique
// strings, so this should print true, true.
compare(x, new String(x).intern());
}
public void compare(String s1, String s2) {
System.out.print("==: ");
System.out.println(s1 == s2);
System.out.println(".equals():" + s1.equals(s2));
System.out.println();
}
}
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