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# Java Examples - Comparing two Strings

## Problem Description:

How to compare two strings ?

## Solution:

Following example compares two strings by using str compareTo (string) , str compareToIgnoreCase(String) and str compareTo(object string) of string class and returns the ascii difference of first odd characters of compared strings .

    public class StringCompareEmp{
       public static void main(String args[]){
          String str = "Hello World";
          String anotherString = "hello world";
          Object objStr = str;

          System.out.println( str.compareTo(anotherString) );
          System.out.println( str.compareToIgnoreCase(anotherString) );
          System.out.println( str.compareTo(objStr.toString()));
       }

    }

## Result:

The above code sample will produce the following result.

    	-32
    	0
    	0

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