Java tutorial
import java.lang.reflect.Array; /* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ public class Main { /** * Test the equality of two object arrays. * * @param a The first array. * @param b The second array. * @param deep True to traverse elements which are arrays. * @return True if arrays are equal. */ public static boolean equals(final Object[] a, final Object[] b, final boolean deep) { if (a == b) return true; if (a == null || b == null) return false; if (a.length != b.length) return false; for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { Object x = a[i]; Object y = b[i]; if (x != y) return false; if (x == null || y == null) return false; if (deep) { if (x instanceof Object[] && y instanceof Object[]) { if (!equals((Object[]) x, (Object[]) y, true)) return false; } else { return false; } } if (!x.equals(y)) return false; } return true; } /** * Test the equality of two object arrays. * * @param a The first array. * @param b The second array. * @return True if arrays are equal. */ public static boolean equals(final Object[] a, final Object[] b) { return equals(a, b, true); } }