String Creation

[Vidyavathi saravanan]

11) What is the output  (Assuming  written inside main) 
    String s1 = new String("amit"); 
    System.out.println(s1.replace('m','r')); 
    System.out.println(s1); 
    String s3="arit"; 
    String s4="arit"; 
    String s2 = s1.replace('m','r'); 
    System.out.println(s2==s3); 
    System.out.println(s3==s4); 

Answer is : arit
amit
false
true.
Wont the s2==s3 be true?.
[ November 11, 2004: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]

[Atul Chandran]

String s2 = s1.replace('m','r');
The above is same as
String s2=new String("arit");
Which will create a new String object "arit" in the non String pool area of memory and s2 will be referring to that object.