String concatenation

[hewitt charlotte]

When i ran this :

class equals
{
public static void main(String args[]) {
Object o1= new Object();
Object o2 = new Object();
boolean b = (o1==o2);
System.out.println("== Magic " +b);;
}

}

It gave me result : == Magic false

But when i ran this:

class equals
{
public static void main(String args[]) {
Object o1= new Object();
Object o2 = new Object();
System.out.println("== Magic " +o1==o2);;
}

}

result was : false,

the == Magic string was lost, can some one explains me why?

[James Hambrick]

class equals
{
public static void main(String args[]) {
Object o1= new Object();
Object o2 = new Object();
System.out.println("== Magic " + (o1==o2));;
}
 
}
 

I put o1==o2 in parenthesis like above. And I received the correct output.

[marc weber]

Originally posted by hewitt charlotte:
...System.out.println("== Magic " +o1==o2);...

...is what you have equivalent to...
System.out.println( "== Magic " + (o1 == o2) );
...or...
System.out.println( ("== Magic " + o1) == o2 );

[subodh gupta]

Look when you using ("some string"+object1 == object2);

it will be converted to:

(("some string"+object1.toString())==object2)

so if you want the result of the latter expression to be concatenated to the string literal
use should use brackets with expression
same is true with int and string addition
e.g.

print("hello"+1+2);

output: hello12

print(1+2+"hello");

output: 3hello