From: Joe Seeley <joiey.seeley@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T01:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: string equivalency

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I don't believe it would matter in the case of a String.  But it is
important to understand the difference.  == compares value.  eql? compares
value and type.  In the case of ints versus floats for example 1==1.0 is
true, but 1.eql?(1.0) is false.

For some classes though, you will see that .eql? is really just syntactic
sugar sending to == anyway...

On 8/16/06, Brad Tilley <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > b = 'brad'
> >
> > if 'bradsdhsh' == b
> >    puts 'equal'
> > else
> >    puts 'not equal'
> > end
> >
> > Or, as a one liner
> >
> > puts 'bradsdhsh' == b ? 'equal' : 'not equal'
>
> This is prefered over the String.eql? method?
>
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