String foo = "abc";
String foo1 = "abc"

what does (foo == foo1) evaluate to?

Question

String foo = "abc";
String foo1 = "abc"

what does (foo == foo1) evaluate to?

baboon · Accepted Answer

You are correct. I checked it with a compiler.

Anonimo · Answer

Interviewer was wrong. You were correct.

yifeng · Answer

better say it's based on different situations

Anonimo · Answer

I thought it was true because hey would be referencing the same object in memory because of String interning. Told the answer was false.

lonelybug · Answer

This situation is same as new String("abc") == new String("abc") rather than "abc"=="abc".

so you was wrong.

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