Hi and good day to all,
Just a curious question, when I am comparing a String object with blank space(" "), I type x.equals(" ") in my Netbeans IDE(x is a String type variable), but Netbeans automatically shows it's an error and change it to " ".equals(x) instead.
Anyone here know about it and keen to answer my question??
Thank you.
that would be the most logical way.
it's not really an error, rather a suggestion:
if ( x.equals(" "))
NetBeans detects the possibility to this code being run without x being initialized. that would lead to a NullPointerException.
if ( " ".equals(x))
here you are calling the equals method on the " " instance of String, it's impossible for it not to be instantiated, hence it is impossible for a NullPointerException to be thrown.
if you add the ! in front, like this:if ( !" ".equals(x))
it just means: 'IF NOT " " EQUALS X'
stultuske, thank you for your answer. Now I'm more clear about that.
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