The compiler does special magic with Strings defined at compile time to optimize. Do some research on the String Literal Pool. See post#5
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Re: Why do these two lines of code not produce the same results? ("==" vs. ".equals()")
The compiler does special magic with Strings defined at compile time to optimize. Do some research on the String Literal Pool. See post#5
Re: Why do these two lines of code not produce the same results? ("==" vs. ".equals()")
== compares the values in the variables
equals() compares the values in the objects
String x = "X";
x is a variable that has the address of the object that contains the value: "X"