Given a code fragment: What is the result?

The correct answer is D. Nothing is printed to the screen. Strings can not be compared with the usual <, <=, >, or >= operators, and the == and != operators don't compare the characters in the strings. So the first if statement fails. Equals works fine on strings. But it does not work here.The second if-statement also fails. The class do

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Question

Given a code fragment:

What is the result?

Exhibit

Options

AThey match
BThey really match
CThey match
DNothing is printed to the screen

How the community answered

(60 responses)

A
13% (8)
B
3% (2)
C
7% (4)
D
77% (46)

Explanation

Strings can not be compared with the usual <, <=, >, or >= operators, and the == and != operators don't compare the characters in the strings. So the first if statement fails. Equals works fine on strings. But it does not work here.The second if-statement also fails. The class does not override the equals method so it uses the equals method of Object. If a and b are two objects from a class which doesn't override equals, then a.equals(b) is the

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#code tracing#conditional statements#string comparison

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