To check for equality between two strings ignoring the case of the string characters, you use the method equalsIgnoreCase(). Let’s put these methods in the context of an example to see them working.

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Exciting Concordance Entries

You’ll use the indexOf() method to search the quotation you used in the last example for "and" and the lastIndexOf() method to search for "the"

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Ordering Strings

n this example you create three strings that you can compare using the compareTo() method

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Two Strings, Identical but Not the Same

In the following code, you test to see whether string1 and string3 refer to the same string

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