==比较Java中的对象引用，String对象也不例外。

为了比较对象(包括String)的实际内容，必须使用equals方法。

如果使用==对两个String对象进行比较的结果为真，那是因为String对象被合并了，并且Java虚拟机有多个引用指向同一个String实例。不要期望使用==比较一个包含相同内容的String对象与另一个String对象的计算结果为true。

所有对象都保证有一个.equals()方法，因为Object包含一个返回布尔值的方法。equals()。如果需要进一步的定义，子类的工作就是重写这个方法。如果没有它(即使用==)，则只检查两个对象之间的内存地址是否相等。String重写了这个.equals()方法，它没有使用内存地址，而是返回字符级别的字符串的相等性比较。

A key note is that strings are stored in one lump pool so once a string is created it is forever stored in a program at the same address. Strings do not change, they are immutable. This is why it is a bad idea to use regular string concatenation if you have a serious of amount of string processing to do. Instead you would use the StringBuilder classes provided. Remember the pointers to this string can change and if you were interested to see if two pointers were the same == would be a fine way to go. Strings themselves do not.

操作符==总是用于对象引用比较，而String类.equals()方法用于内容比较被重写:

String s1 = new String("abc");
String s2 = new String("abc");
System.out.println(s1 == s2); // It prints false (reference comparison)
System.out.println(s1.equals(s2)); // It prints true (content comparison)

功能:

public float simpleSimilarity(String u, String v) {
    String[] a = u.split(" ");
    String[] b = v.split(" ");

    long correct = 0;
    int minLen = Math.min(a.length, b.length);

    for (int i = 0; i < minLen; i++) {
        String aa = a[i];
        String bb = b[i];
        int minWordLength = Math.min(aa.length(), bb.length());

        for (int j = 0; j < minWordLength; j++) {
            if (aa.charAt(j) == bb.charAt(j)) {
                correct++;
            }
        }
    }

    return (float) (((double) correct) / Math.max(u.length(), v.length()));
}

测试:

String a = "This is the first string.";

String b = "this is not 1st string!";

// for exact string comparison, use .equals

boolean exact = a.equals(b);

// For similarity check, there are libraries for this
// Here I'll try a simple example I wrote

float similarity = simple_similarity(a,b);

==比较对象的引用值，而java.lang.String类中的equals()方法比较String对象的内容(与另一个对象)。

==测试对象引用，.equals()测试字符串值。

有时，==看起来像是比较值，因为Java在幕后做了一些工作，以确保相同的内联字符串实际上是相同的对象。

例如:

String fooString1 = new String("foo");
String fooString2 = new String("foo");

// Evaluates to false
fooString1 == fooString2;

// Evaluates to true
fooString1.equals(fooString2);

// Evaluates to true, because Java uses the same object
"bar" == "bar";

但是要小心空值!

==可以处理空字符串，但从空字符串调用.equals()会导致异常:

String nullString1 = null;
String nullString2 = null;

// Evaluates to true
System.out.print(nullString1 == nullString2);

// Throws a NullPointerException
System.out.print(nullString1.equals(nullString2));

因此，如果您知道fooString1可能为空，请通过写入来告诉读取器

System.out.print(fooString1 != null && fooString1.equals("bar"));

下面是更短的，但不太明显，它检查null:

System.out.print("bar".equals(fooString1));  // "bar" is never null
System.out.print(Objects.equals(fooString1, "bar"));  // Java 7 required