How to check the equality of strings in clojure without invoking java.lang.String?

Question

Is there any way in clojure to check the equality of strings? i.e. I need to know, whether their contents is equal, not location.

thanks.

Answer 1

Equality in Clojure (the = function) always tests value, not identity, so two strings are = if they have the same contents.

For most Java types, including String, Clojure = dispatches to Java .equals. String.equals is defined as "represents the same sequence of characters."

If you want to test identity (Are these pointers to the same location in memory?) use the identical? function.