[Advanced-java] Odd question

[ejfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (friedman_hill ernest j)]

Hi Alvin,

The other nonsensical replies you've received to the contrary, there
is a method that does precisely what you want. It's
String.intern(). If there's a literal "abc" in your JVM, then new
String("abc").intern() returns it; i.e., 

        new String("abc").intern() == "abc"

always. See section 3.10.5 of the JLS for definitive statement that
this is always true.

Sigh. Folks, PLEASE don't reply to messages on mailing lists to say
"maybe it's this" or "have you tried X?" If you don't KNOW, then
you're not contributing; you're just confusing the original poster.

I think Alvin Wang wrote:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hi! It is a little odd. Let us say:
> 
> String str = new String("abc");
> 
> We all know that (str == "abc") is false. My question is how to manipulate
> str to make str point to "abc" (because str knows that its value itself is
> "abc"), or in the other word, to make (str == "abc") true?
> 
> Thanks!
> 



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