Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers ...

Hi all-<BR><BR>Does anyone know if there is a way to compare two strings, one having the wildcards '?' and '*'? I'm familiar with the Regular Expressions part of the standard library, but that's ...

As noted, Java strings are immutable. Once created, a string using string class cannot be changed. Any attempted changes will create another string instance. Users can perform basic operations, such ...

JDK 7 changes this for Java by introducing the ability to switch ... against the class files generated for both versions of String comparison code shown above and the results do have some differences.