Lecture 23
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Comparing Strings
•public int compareTo(String s) // not boolean
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•“hello”.compareTo(“help!”) -4 // = ‘l’ - ‘p’
•“hello”.compareTo(“hell”)   1 // 5-4 (lengths)
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•x.compareTo(y) == 0 just when x.equals(y)
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•compareTo is wonderful for sorting (alphabetizing)