The sad thing is the programmer from the Big 5 Consulting Firm that we
paid almost 7 figures to didn't know the difference either.

George


Isaac Sparrow wrote:
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> On Friday 21 June 2002 09:25 am, Alpha Zenon Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > BTW...my gut instinct tells me that the second example
> >
> > 'if (a.equals("something")){
> >
> > ---instructions----
> >
> > }
> >
> > will compile and work....I've seen this example
> > before,
> > but not sure why a.equals works rather than a ==
> >
> > =====
> > Thanks,
> > Alpha Zenon Sanchez
> >
> 
> "a.equls()" tests to see if the objects are equal. Two diff. objects are
> equal.
> "==" will tell you if two refrences point to the same object.
> 
> String a = "foo"
> String b = "foo"
> 
> if (a.equals(b))        // true
> 
> if (a == b)     // false
> 
> b = a
> 
> if (a == b)     // true
> 
> Hope this helps.
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