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  3. June 2005

Re: Cost of instantiating

Paul Morgan wrote:

>Thanks Joe,
>
>I'm getting immutables confused with string constants:
>
>        String s1 = "XYZ";
>        String s2 = "XYZ";
>
>        System.out.println(s1 == s2);
>
>prints true.
>
>Not the same thing though.
>
>Sorry,
>Paul (wondering why this wouldn't work for immutables)
>
>  
>

Hi,
from my experience,
never use == for String (only to test if this is the same object),
use .equals( ),

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