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Java comparesto, How does it work?

  • 04-11-2013 10:20am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭


    Hi there,
    I have (yet another!) question in Java. I am currently doing an exercise in Strings and my issue is with compares to.

    Essentially the exercise is this:
    Given the following code that prints, “0”:          
    1. Modify the string(s) so that a value greater than 0 is printed,
    and explain why this happens.    
    2. Modify the string(s) so that a value less than 0 is printed, and
    explain why this happens.


    This is the code I have:
    public class Ex_3_4 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    String eggs1 = "Cackle fruit";
    String eggs2 = "Cackle fruit";

    System.out.println(eggs1.compareTo(eggs2));//0

    eggs1 = "Cackles fruit";
    System.out.println(eggs1.compareTo(eggs2));//83

    eggs1 = "Cackle frui";
    System.out.println(eggs1.compareTo(eggs2));//-1

    }

    }

    what I want to know is, why am I getting the values 83 and -1?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭lynchie


    Javadoc for string explains the return values for compareTo inside Comparable. As to the reason for the exact return value look at the source inside String.java


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