Check if two Strings are equal without using built-in function – Java

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Objective– Given two strings, find out if they are equal or not without using any built-in function (without using equals() function in java).

Example:

String x='tutorial' and String y='tutorial' are equal - true
String x='tutorial' and String y='tutorial ' are equal - false
String x='tutorial' and String y=' ' are equal – false

Approach:

  • If any of the string is null, return false.
  • If lengths of both strings are not matching, return false.
  • Check if all the characters of both strings are matching, if not return false.
  • If all the steps above got executed without returning false then return true.

Code:


public class CompareStrings {
public static boolean compare(String x, String y){
if(x==null || y==null){
return false;
}
//compare lengths
if(x.length()!=y.length())
return false;
//compare all characters
for (int i = 0; i <x.length() ; i++) {
if(x.charAt(i)!=y.charAt(i))
return false;
}
//if here, means both strings are equal
return true;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String x = "tutorial";
String y = "tutorial";
System.out.println("String x='" + x + "' and String y='" + y + "' are equal?? –" + compare(x, y));
x = "tutorial";
y = "tutorial ";
System.out.println("String x='" + x + "' and String y='" + y + "' are equal?? –" + compare(x, y));
x = "tutorial";
y = " ";
System.out.println("String x='" + x + "' and String y='" + y + "' are equal?? –" + compare(x, y));
}
}

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CompareStrings.java

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Output:

String x='tutorial' and String y='tutorial' are equal?? -true
String x='tutorial' and String y='tutorial ' are equal?? -false
String x='tutorial' and String y=' ' are equal?? -false

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