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Foil 22 More on Strings and the StringBuffer Class

From Java Tutorial, July 1, 1996 CEWES Tutorial, CPS606, JSU Class CSC499 -- July 22-25 1997, Fall 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo
1 String comparison is done with the methods equals() and equalsIgnoreCase(). Note that == tests if two strings are the same string instance, while equals() tests if two distinct strings have the same characters.
2 Other methods include length(), charAt( int ) and toLowerCase().
3 The StringBuffer class has mutable strings, but with a fixed maximum size. Methods such as append(...) automatically extend the length of the string.
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