Following on from here, take a look at this code:

package _06Swampless_JUnitTests;

public class testString {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String piece1 = “donkeyOGREsnake”;
String piece2 = “donkeysnake”;
String piece3 = piece1.replace(“OGRE”, “”);
if (piece3 == piece2) {
System.out.println(“yeehah”);
}
System.out.println(“piece1: ” + piece1);
System.out.println(“piece2: ” + piece2);
System.out.println(“piece3: ” + piece3);
} //end main

} //end class

This sets up pieces of text which are identical except the first one has some extra characters, namely “OGRE” . A third piece is created as the first one minus “OGRE”. So the third piece should be the same as the second. The if block will print ‘yeehah’ if this is true and ‘boo hiss’ if they’re not.

The actual output is:
boohiss
piece1: donkeyOGREsnake
piece2: donkeysnake
piece3: donkeysnake

So two identical-looking pieces of text are in fact not identical. Bah!