Java equals() & ==

 1 /**
 2      * Compares this string to the specified object.  The result is {@code
 3      * true} if and only if the argument is not {@code null} and is a {@code
 4      * String} object that represents the same sequence of characters as this
 5      * object.
 6      *
 7      * @param  anObject
 8      *         The object to compare this {@code String} against
 9      *
10      * @return  {@code true} if the given object represents a {@code String}
11      *          equivalent to this string, {@code false} otherwise
12      *
13      * @see  #compareTo(String)
14      * @see  #equalsIgnoreCase(String)
15      */
16     public boolean equals(Object anObject) {
17      if (this == anObject) {
18          return true ;
19      }
20      if (anObject instanceof String) {
21          String anotherString = (String)anObject;
22          int n = count ;
23          if (n == anotherString.count ) {
24            char v1[] = value ;
25            char v2[] = anotherString.value ;
26            int i = offset ;
27            int j = anotherString.offset ;
28            while (n-- != 0) {
29               if (v1[i++] != v2[j++])
30                return false ;
31           }
32            return true ;
33          }
34      }
35      return false;
36     }