compare Strings in Java

The example compares two strings by using str compareTo (string) , str compareToIgnoreCase(String) and str compareTo(object string) methods of string class and returns the ascii difference of first odd characters of compared strings .

Example of comparing Strings in Java

public class StringCompare{ 
public static void main(String args[]){ 
String str = "Nice World"; 
String anotherString = "nice world"; 
Object objStr = str; 

System.out.println( str.compareTo(anotherString) ); 
System.out.println( str.compareToIgnoreCase(anotherString) ); 
System.out.println( str.compareTo(objStr.toString())); 
} 

}

Output

-32 
0 
0