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Foil 19 More on Strings, and the StringBuffer class

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 4: Multithreading, useful Java classes, I/O, Networking, and the future Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 String comparison can be done with the methods equals and equalsIgnoreCase. Note that == tests if two strings are the same string instance, while equals tests if two different strings have the same characters.
2 Other methods include length, CharAt and toString.
3 The StringBuffer class has mutable strings, but is created with a fixed maximum size. It has methods such as append to extend the length of the string.
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