With strings, the equals() method checks the two contained collections of characters. : String class « Utility Classes « SCJP

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public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    String s1 = "Compare me";
    String s2 = "Compare me";
    if (s1.equals(s2)) {
      System.out.println("==");
    }

  }
}

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