How to Compare two Strings in Java

In this example we show how to compare two different strings in Java

There are a couple of ways of doing this, in this example we will use the equals() method which returns a boolean value.

Example

import java.util.*;

public class JavaApplication1 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        String myString1 = "Maxprogramming";
        String myString2 = "maxprogramming";
        boolean val = myString1.equals(myString2);
        System.out.println(val);
        String myString3 = myString2;
        val = myString2.equals(myString3);
        System.out.println(val);
    }
    
}

Here is this examples output

run:
false
true

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