comparing two strings in ruby [closed]

Question

I've just started to learn ruby and this is probably very easy to solve. How do I compare two strings in Ruby?

I've tried the following :

puts var1 == var2 //false, should be true (I think) puts var1.eql?(var2) //false, should be true (I think) 

When I try to echo them to console so I can compare values visually, I do this :

puts var1 //prints "test content" without quotes puts var2 //prints ["test content"] with quotes and braces 

Ultimately are these different types of strings of how do I compare these two?

Answer 1

Here are some:

"Ali".eql? "Ali" => true 

The spaceship (<=>) method can be used to compare two strings in relation to their alphabetical ranking. The <=> method returns 0 if the strings are identical, -1 if the left hand string is less than the right hand string, and 1 if it is greater:

"Apples" <=> "Apples" => 0  "Apples" <=> "Pears" => -1  "Pears" <=> "Apples" => 1 

A case insensitive comparison may be performed using the casecmp method which returns the same values as the <=> method described above:

"Apples".casecmp "apples" => 0 

Answer 2

From what you printed, it seems var2 is an array containing one string. Or actually, it appears to hold the result of running .inspect on an array containing one string. It would be helpful to show how you are initializing them.

irb(main):005:0* v1 = "test" => "test" irb(main):006:0> v2 = ["test"] => ["test"] irb(main):007:0> v3 = v2.inspect => "[\"test\"]" irb(main):008:0> puts v1,v2,v3 test test ["test"]