equality of strings code example

Example 1: java how to compare strings

System.out.println("hey".equals("hey")); //prints true

/*
	always use .equals() instead of ==,
    because == does the compare the string content but
    loosely where the string is stored in.
*/

Example 2: in java how to compare two strings

class scratch{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String str1 = "Nyello";
        String str2 = "Hello";
        String str3 = "Hello";

        System.out.println( str1.equals(str2) ); //prints false
        System.out.println( str2.equals(str3) ); //prints true
    }
}