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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