Java contains doesn't work as expected because “someString” != “someString”

Question

I want check whether a String value val is contained within a List of Strings lets call it stringList.

I am doing this

if(stringList.con         


        

Answer 1

More code please!

This works:

import java.util.*;

public class Contains {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List stringList = new ArrayList();
        stringList.add("someString");
        String val = new String("someString");
        if (stringList.contains(val)) {
            System.out.println("The value is in there");
        } else {
            System.out.println("There's no such value here");
        }
    }
}