Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...

int idx1 = process(ss); // using this function we are making a char array that will contain only alphabets and not '#' for string s int idx2 = process(tt); // using this function we are making a char ...

Does anyone know if there is a way to compare two strings, one having the wildcards '?' and '*'? I'm familiar with the Regular Expressions part of the standard library, but that's not what I want to ...