Choose Between Good And Evil
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We shall view the [http://www.skylit.com/javamethods-old/ppt/Ch07.ppt slides (1-12)] that accompany the Book Of The Humans, pages 154 to 160. | We shall view the [http://www.skylit.com/javamethods-old/ppt/Ch07.ppt slides (1-12)] that accompany the Book Of The Humans, pages 154 to 160. | ||
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| + | Objects are difficult creatures: we cannot truly compare them with inequality operators such as ==, >= and the like. For objects, those operators compare only the memory addresses of the objects. This has at least two uses: | ||
| + | * compare with null to see if a variable points of an object allocated with new. | ||
| + | * compare the address of two objects to see if they are the same object. | ||
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| + | But usually, we will want to compare objects by their contents. For class String, there are a few useful tricks. | ||
| + | * For strings s1 and s2, you can see if they are equal with '''s1.equals(s2)'''. | ||
| + | * You can find the length of a string with '''s1.length'''. | ||
| + | * You can get any character in position n with '''s1.charAt(n)'''. | ||
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| + | For this code, figure out the values of the character and boolean variables a to l. Remember, for String == is not the same as .equals(). | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | String s1 = "abcde"; | ||
| + | String s2 = "elbereth" | ||
| + | String s3 = s1; | ||
| + | String s4 = "abcde"; | ||
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| + | char a = s1.charAt(4); | ||
| + | char b = s2.charAt(3); | ||
| + | char c = s2.charAt(2); | ||
| + | boolean d = a == b; | ||
| + | boolean e = a != c; | ||
| + | boolean f = b == c; | ||
| + | boolean g = s1 == s2; | ||
| + | boolean h = s1 == s3; | ||
| + | boolean i = s1 == s4; | ||
| + | boolean j = s1.equals(s2); | ||
| + | boolean k = s1.equals(s3); | ||
| + | boolean l = s1.equals(s4); | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
| + | Now make a test program that prints out each. Did you get them right? Why or why not? | ||
