Java.lang.Enum.equals() Method

Description

The java.lang.Enum.equals() method returns true if the specified object is equal to this enum constant.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.Enum.equals() method

public final boolean equals(Object other)

Parameters

• other -- This is the object to be compared for equality with this object.

Return Value

This method returns true if the specified object is equal to this enum constant.

Exception

• NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.Enum.equals() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.*;

// enum showing topics covered under Tutorials
enum Tutorials {  
   topic1, topic2, topic3;
} 
 
public class EnumDemo { 

   public static void main(String args[]) {
 
     Tutorials t1, t2, t3; 
    
     t1 = Tutorials.topic1; 
     t2 = Tutorials.topic2; 
     t3 = Tutorials.topic3; 
    
     if(t1.equals(t2)) {
        System.out.println(t1 + " is equal to " + t2); 
     }
    
     else if(t2.equals(t3)) {
        System.out.println(t2 + " is equal to " + t3); 
     }
    
     else if(t1.equals(t3)) { 
        System.out.println(t1 + " is equal to " + t3); 
     }
    
     else {
        System.out.println("all 3 topics are different"); 
     }
   } 
}  

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

all 3 topics are different