Java .equals()

The .equals() method returns true if two strings are equal in value. Otherwise, false is returned.

Syntax

string.equals(object);

The object can either be a string literal or a representation of a String value. This will return true if the string has the same character sequence as object.

Example

The following example showcases the .equals() method:

import java.io.*;

public class MyClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // With string literals
    System.out.println("4".equals("four"));

    // With string objects
    String myFavoriteLanguage = "Java";
    String codeNinjasFavoriteLanguage = "Java";
    System.out.println(myFavoriteLanguage.equals(codeNinjasFavoriteLanguage));
  }
}

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This will print the following output:

false
true

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