doubt in " =="

[Syed Naimathullah]

1: if( new Boolean("true") == new Boolean("true"))
2: System.out.println("True");
3: else
4: System.out.println("False");

explain the program and output

[Keith Lynn]

The new operator always creates a new object.

Even though the two Boolean objects contain the same value, they are different objects.

[Raghavan Muthu]

Hi Syed,

explain the program and output

Have you tried executing it? You could have just executed and seen the output at first.

If you wonder about the result being false, its because the "new" operator which by default creates a "brand new" object no matter what its doing with the content.

HtH.

[Jesper de Jong]

And the == operator only returns true if the two values you are comparing refer to the same object. In that line of code, there are two different Boolean objects, so == will return false.