Compare two path with compareTo in Java

Description

The following code shows how to compare two path with compareTo.

Example


import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Path path1 = Paths.get("/home/docs/users.txt");
    Path path2 = Paths.get("/home/docs/users.txt");
    Path path3 = Paths.get("/home/music/A.mp3");

    testCompareTo(path1, path2);
    testCompareTo(path1, path3);

  }

  private static void testCompareTo(Path path1, Path path2) {
    if (path1.compareTo(path2) == 0) {
      System.out.println("identical");
    } else {
      System.out.println("NOT identical");
    }
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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