some prob with ...comparing object..

[Shashank Sharma]

I know it has been disscussed by some other users to....but my prob is...

#Ex1.
Pizza pizza1=new Pizza("Veggedelight");
Pizza pizza2=new Pizza("Veggedelight");
Pizza pizza3=new Pizza("Chesedelight");
boolean test1=pizza1.equals(pizza2); //false ....(1)
pizza1=pizza2;
boolean test2=pizza1.equals(pizza2); //true .............(2)

#Ex2.
String Movie1 =new String("Harry Potter");
String Movie2 = new String("Harry Potter");
boolean test3=Movie1.equals(Movie2); ...//true (3)

we know that == operator compares the refrences of the object whereas Object.equals() method compares the content i.e their state.

now how is that possible that line 1 results false and line 3 comes to be true ,When in both the cases the objects has same content

[Henry Wong]

we know that == operator compares the refrences of the object whereas Object.equals() method compares the content i.e their state.

The == operator does compares the references of the objects -- but so does the Object.equals() method. To get the equals method to compare the "state", you need to override the method.

Henry

[Vyas]

I thought equalsIgnoreCase() compares the case

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Vyas:
I thought equalsIgnoreCase() compares the case

The Object class does not have an equalsIgnoreCase() method. However, the String class does. The String class also overrides the equals() methods so that it compares the values of the strings -- instead of just references.

Henry