在Java 中，关于String的 compareTo()、equals()和== 的区别

实例为准：

package com.wsy.freemarker;

public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s1 = new String("abc");
String s2 = new String("abc");


// == 测试
System.out.println((s1 == s2) ? "true" : "false");


// equals() 方法测试
System.out.println((s1.equals(s2)) ? "true" : "false");


// compareTo() 方法测试
if (s1.compareTo(s2) == 0) {
System.out.println("s1 is equal s2");
}


// 再次验证 ==
s1 = s2;
System.out.println((s1 == s2) ? "true" : "false");
}

}

运行结果：

false
true
s1 is equal s2
true

雪山独孤言：

== 用于比较对象；equals() 与 compareTo()方法用于比较数值， 但equeals() 方法返回的是 boolean 类型，而compareTo() 方法返回的是 int 类型。当需要比较的两个 字符串 的长度不等的时候，equeals() 方法是直接返回false，而compareTo()任然还要去挨个挨个的比较，然后返回差值。

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equals() should be the method of choice in the case of the OP. Looking at the implementation of equals() and compareTo() in java.lang.String on grepcode, we can easily see that equals is better if we are just concerned with the equality of two Strings: equals(): 1012 public boolean equals(Object anObject) { 1013 if (this == anObject) { 1014 return true; 1015 } 1016 if (anObject instanceof String) { 1017 String anotherString = (String)anObject; 1018 int n = count; 1019 if (n == anotherString.count) { 1020 char v1[] = value; 1021 char v2[] = anotherString.value; 1022 int i = offset; 1023 int j = anotherString.offset; 1024 while (n-- != 0) { 1025 if (v1[i++] != v2[j++]) 1026 return false; 1027 } 1028 return true; 1029 } 1030 } 1031 return false; 1032 } and compareTo(): 1174 public int compareTo(String anotherString) { 1175 int len1 = count; 1176 int len2 = anotherString.count; 1177 int n = Math.min(len1, len2); 1178 char v1[] = value; 1179 char v2[] = anotherString.value; 1180 int i = offset; 1181 int j = anotherString.offset; 1183 if (i == j) { 1184 int k = i; 1185 int lim = n + i; 1186 while (k < lim) { 1187 char c1 = v1[k]; 1188 char c2 = v2[k]; 1189 if (c1 != c2) { 1190 return c1 - c2; 1191 } 1192 k++; 1193 } 1194 } else { 1195 while (n-- != 0) { 1196 char c1 = v1[i++]; 1197 char c2 = v2[j++]; 1198 if (c1 != c2) { 1199 return c1 - c2; 1200 } 1201 } 1202 } 1203 return len1 - len2; 1204 } When one of the strings is a prefix of another, the performance of compareTo() is worse as it still needs to determine the lexicographical ordering while equals() won't worry any more and return false immediately. In my opinion, we should use these two as they were intended: equals() to check for equality, and compareTo() to find the lexical ordering. 尊重他人劳动成果，转载请注明出处。谢谢！！！！！