Groovy - How to compare the string?

Question

how to compare the string which is passed as a parameter

the following method is not working.

 String str = \"saveMe\"

 compareString(str)

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Answer 1

The shortest way (will print "not same" because String comparison is case sensitive):

def compareString = {
   it == "india" ? "same" : "not same"
}    

compareString("India")

Answer 2

use def variable, when you want to compare any String. Use below code for that type of comparison.

def variable name = null

SQL query give you some return. Use function with return type def.

def functionname(def variablename){

return variable name

}

if ("$variable name" == "true"){

}

Answer 3

In Groovy, null == null gets a true. At runtime, you won't know what happened. In Java, == is comparing two references.

This is a cause of big confusion in basic programming, Whether it is safe to use equals. At runtime, a null.equals will give an exception. You've got a chance to know what went wrong.

Especially, you get two values from keys not exist in map(s), == makes them equal.

Answer 4

String str = "saveMe"
compareString(str)

def compareString(String str){
  def str2 = "saveMe"

  // using single quotes
  println 'single quote string class' + 'String.class'.class
  println str + ' == ' + str2 + " ? " + (str == str2)
  println ' str = ' +  '$str' //  interpolation not supported

  // using double quotes, Interpolation supported
  println "double quoted string with interpolation " + "GString.class $str".class
  println "double quoted string without interpolation " + "String.class".class
  println "$str equals $str2 ? " + str.equals(str2) 
  println '$str == $str2 ? ' + "$str==$str2"
  println '${str == str2} ? ' + "${str==str2} ? "

  println '$str equalsIgnoreCase $str2 ? ' + str.equalsIgnoreCase(str2)   

  println '''
  triple single quoted Multi-line string, Interpolation not supported $str ${str2}
  Groovy has also an operator === that can be used for objects equality
  === is equivalent to o1.is(o2)
  '''
  println '''
  triple quoted string 
  '''
  println 'triple single quoted string ' + '''' string '''.class

  println """ 
  triple double quoted Multi-line string, Interpolation is supported $str == ${str2}
  just like double quoted strings with the addition that they are multiline
  '\${str == str2} ? ' ${str == str2} 
  """
  println 'triple double quoted string ' + """ string """.class
} 

output:

single quote string classclass java.lang.String
saveMe == saveMe ? true
str = $str
double quoted string with interpolation class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl
double quoted string without interpolation class java.lang.String
saveMe equals saveMe ? true
$str == $str2 ? saveMe==saveMe
${str == str2} ? true ? 
$str equalsIgnoreCase $str2 ? true 

triple single quoted Multi-line string, Interpolation not supported $str ${str2}
Groovy has also an operator === that can be used for objects equality
=== is equivalent to o1.is(o2)


triple quoted string 

triple single quoted string class java.lang.String

triple double quoted Multi-line string, Interpolation is supported saveMe == saveMe
just like double quoted strings with the addition that they are multiline
'${str == str2} ? ' true 

triple double quoted string class java.lang.String

Answer 5

If you don't want to check on upper or lowercases you can use the following method.

String str = "India" 
compareString(str) 

def compareString(String str){ 
  def str2 = "india" 
  if( str2.toUpperCase() == str.toUpperCase() ) { 
    println "same" 
  }else{ 
    println "not same" 
  } 
}

So now if you change str to "iNdIa" it'll still work, so you lower the chance that you make a typo.

Answer 6

This should be an answer

str2.equals( str )

If you want to ignore case

str2.equalsIgnoreCase( str )