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Re: Comparing Objects

Posted by Brian Sanders on November 29, 2001 at 4:32 PM

String values are Objects. You compare Objects using the .equals() method. So, your code above would be:

if (Global.name1.equals(Global.name2))

When you use the == operator on Objects, what you're really doing is comparing the Object references. So, this is equivalent to asking, "Does the object reference on the left side of the == point to the same address in memory as the object reference on the right side of the ==?"




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