A: NOT Equal
The two arrays are different lengths.
B: NOT Equal
The elements are not in the same order.
C: Equal
The array is compared with itself, and found to equal.
equals() MethodsThe method used in the above examples is this:
static boolean Array.equals( int[] a, int[] a2 )
The class Arrays has a variety of equals()
methods to handle different types.
But in all cases, both arrays are of the same type.
static boolean equals(boolean[] a, boolean[] a2) static boolean equals(byte[] a, byte[] a2) static boolean equals(char[] a, char[] a2) static boolean equals(double[] a, double[] a2) static boolean equals(float[] a, float[] a2) static boolean equals(int[] a, int[] a2) static boolean equals(long[] a, long[] a2) static boolean equals(Object[] a, Object[] a2) static boolean equals(short[] a, short[] a2)
Could you write your own equals() method.