Apr 2, 2013 · If the compareTo result is 0, then the two strings are equal, otherwise the strings being compared are not equal. The == compares the references and does not compare the …

Our detective will look closely at all physical aspects. With thorough inquiry, the agent will be able to conclude whether it's the same person or not. Let's see it happen in Java terms. Here's the …

Jul 29, 2014 · String.intern() If you have two strings, you can internate them, i.e. make the JVM create a String pool and returning to you the instance equal to the pool instance (by calling …

If I use equals, however, the equals method will read the two pieces of paper and see that they say the same thing ("Foo"), and so it'll return true. The bit that gets confusing with Strings is …

public static boolean isEqualCollection(java.util.Collection a, java.util.Collection b) Returns `true` iff the given `Collection`s contain exactly the same elements with exactly the same …

Sep 1, 2018 · If you want to compare strings (to see if they contain the same characters), you need to compare the strings using equals(). Hence, the operator == checks equality of values …

Jun 9, 2014 · There are two ways to compare strings: The first is to compare via addresses of the string. Such as: string blue = string red. The second way to compare strings is through values. …

Sep 25, 2014 · See this question and answer: Getting the closest string match. Using some heuristics and the Levenshtein distance algorithm, you can compute the similarity of two …

Apr 18, 2012 · Is it possible to do something like this in Java for Android (this is a pseudo code) IF (some_string.equals("john" OR "mary" OR "peter" OR "etc."){ THEN do something } At the …

Jan 20, 2012 · If one element is equal, you can stop and handle that case. If none of the elements is equal to usercode, then do the appropriate to handle that case. In pseudocode: found = …