How To Compare Strings With == in Java

very nice information how to compare strings in JAVA. Thanks sharing with informative blog.

how to compare string containing ‘/’ ?

Here is your answer A. Pushpanjali
Java program for comparing two text files

HI,

I have a small question in java.
I have two inputs , which are word documents .I want to compare these two document values.Is it possible in Java.If any one knows this please let me know.

thanks & Regards,
A.Pushpanjali

HI,

I have a small question in java.
I have to inputs , which are word documents .I want to compare these two document values.Is it possible in Java.If any one knows this please let me know.

thanks & Regards,
A.Pushpanjali

jeh: you must be f* joking

how to uncompare 2 strings??

if (arr3[u].equalsIgnoreCase(search))
is to compare

how about the right this??
if (arr3[u] NOT EQUAL TO (search));

what is tha code for that??

Krishna: you may want to make sure there’s no trailing spaces by doing:

if (name3.trim().equals(name1.trim()))…

Or even compare case-insensitively by using

name.toUpper(); // I think

At least if you want to be Microsoftish

otherwise I see not problems with your code… (other than calling passwords for “name” — be careful with variable names or it will come back and bite you some day… had a colleague that used zib and zob and variations thereof for his variable names… guess how fun that was to work with? ;o)

HTH

/Erik

out.println(” user from form”);String name3= request.getParameter(”uname”);out.println(name3);
out.println(”user from DB”);String name1= rs.getString(”uname”);out.println(name1);
String test=name1;
out.println(”pass from DB”);String name2= rs.getString(”pass”);out.println(name2);

out.println(” pass from form”);String name4= request.getParameter(”pass”);out.println(name4);

if (name3.equals(name1))
{
out.println(”Authentication successful- usewwerwrwrname is correct”);
}
else {
out.println(”kindly check your usernasame and/or password”);
}

the above are my codes, i get the output in the jsp page as :

user from form krishna
user from DB krishna
pass from DB krishna
pass from form krishna
kindly check your usernasame and/or password

what is wrong in my statement… the strings are same, but the if clause is not executed.. will be kindful to know the answer..

String.equals()

Hi
I am in urgent need for the program in java which compares two huge strings and return boolean value

Do help me by giving the appraoch and code
with regards
seenu

Yes

Whoops - the parser ate my <’s.
Anyway, you get my menaing.

In your specific case,
String myString = "first bit"+"next bit";
is still better, since the compiler will do the
optimization while compiling - so it will compile to the same bytecode as
String myString = "first bitnext bit";

But for the more general case where it is not constant strings, you are almost right.

The only difference is that in java 1.5 the compiler will use a StringBuilder - it’s just like StringBuffer, but without the synchronisation. With some JVM’s, this might make the + version marginally faster.
As well as more readable.

Now, if you start doing multiple concatenations in different statements, it is a different matter. In that case, using an explicit StringBuilder will save the jvm from constructing a lot of temporary StringBuilders.

It will be much faster to do

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for(int i = 0; i


String result = "";
for(int i = 0; i

Hi,
Regarding your last comment, it was my understanding that since 1.5 there are no performance advantages to doing:


StringBuffer buff = New StringBuffer("first bit");
buff.append(" next bit");

instead of:

String myString = "first bit"+"next bit";

as most 1.5 jvm implement the string + operator using the StringBuffer class anyway.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

intern() will pollute the intern constant pool and you will not get the entries out of the pool

Older JVMs will put .intern()’ed strings into a pool of strings that live for the duration of the JVM instance. Thus, if a long-living process uses .intern() on dynamic strings, it will eventually run out of memory.

A quick test is this program:

public static void main(String[] args) {
while (true) {
System.out.println(String.valueOf(Math.random()).intern());
}
}

- it may run out of memory.

Thanks for the correction. I checked with sample code and you guys are absolutely right. With current versions of JDK (I tested with 1.5) I couldn’t find any performance difference.

However I couldn’t understand the “intern() will pollute the intern constant pool and you will not get the entries out of the pool” part.
Do you mean not being able to garbage collect?
Christian, can you please clarify?

Hi,
I’m not sure whether using intern should really be recommended.

Actually if you compare the speed of intern versus a simple hashmap at least on SUN JDK 1.4 the hashmap is much faster. Another point is the String.equals first compares for == anyway. So there’s almost no point to use == directly.
You are right some XML parsers use intern, but I’m not sure that is optimal. They may save some memory by using intern instead of a simple HashMap.

Regards,
Markus

This is highly problematic. intern() will pollute the intern constant pool and you will not get the entries out of the pool. I think it is the best to use a private data structure mimicking the behaviour.