question on string tokenizer

[munigantipraveen]

when i split a string into tokens and comparing with another string its giving me false can any body help me out

String str="hello this is pardhu:at hyderabad;";
if i split it and compars as
StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(str,":;");
while(st.hasMoreTokens())
{
if(st.hasMoreTokens.equalsIgnoreCase("hellothis is pardhu"))
{
......
......
}

}
it is returining false can some body help me out

[Eranga]

You don't have deal with the next token here. Simply you don't start to find the first token either.

[Eranga]

Keep in mind that, equalsIgnoreCase() not support for the patterns. I mean strings you comparing are not in same length. Because you have remove a white space in the second string.