Equals

[java4amanda]

hi all,

i was going through the concept of .equals operator which according to me checks the objects content equivality. But when i tried to run my sample code mentioned below


class Const

{


public Const(String n)

{


System.out.println(n);

}




public static void main(String[] args)

{


Const cst = new Const("sam");

Const ts = new Const("sam");

//ts= cst;


if(cst.equals(ts))


{


System.out.println("equal");

}


else

System.out.println("not equal");

}


}

I get the out put as "not equal" which i guess shouldn't be. Can any one help me out here?


Thank you

[JosAH]

You should read some more about the equals( ... ) method and its compadre hashCode(); for one thing: you didn't implement them (according to the code you've shown us).

kind regards,

Jos

[java4amanda]

ohh ok thanks

[DarrylBurke]

50 posts and you still haven't learned how to post code? Or are you just lazy?

db

[Ksharp]

Because you created a new class, you can't use equals() in this situation, you need override equals() to get desired result.


Ksharp