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» Equality Testing with Hardcoded Strings

Published by
engfer
October 6, 2009 in Java. 0 Comments

If you are going to use a String equality comparison that involves a hardcoded string, you might as well save yourself from some NullPointerExceptions and the extra null pointer check, put the hardcoded string as the method call-e instead of the parameter.

Instead of:

if ( foo.equals( "some static string" ) ){...}

or...

if ( foo != null && foo.equals( "some static string" ) ){...}

use:

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