The 2 main differences are that: equals will take any Object as a parameter, but compareTo will only take Strings . equals only tells you whether they’re equal or not, but compareTo gives information on how the Strings compare lexicographically.
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Second difference between equals and == operator is that == is used to check a reference or memory address of the objects whether they point to the same location or not, and the equals() method is used to compare the contents of the object e.g. in case of comparing String its characters, in case of Integer it’s their …7 Kas 2021
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