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As part of the Java Language Specification (the ‘rules’ for the Java Language), Strings have a special characteristic. It turns out that in some circumstance (BUT NOT ALL), you can use ‘==‘ to compare Strings, in addition to .equals(). Consider:

String strHello1 = “Hello”;

String strHello2 = “Hello”;

We would expect these lines to produce the

following memory changes

In fact, it produces the following results in memory:

strHello1

strHello2

Hello

strHello1

strHello2

Equality with References to Objects:

Strings are special

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