Groovy - How to compare the string?

Question

how to compare the string which is passed as a parameter

the following method is not working.

 String str = "saveMe"   compareString(str)   def compareString(String str){     def str2 = "saveMe"     if(str2==${str}){       println "same"     }else{       println "not same"     }  }     

also tried

 String str = "India"   compareString(str)   def compareString(String str){    def str2 = "india"    if( str2 == str ) {      println "same"    }else{      println "not same"    }  }     

Answer 1

This should be an answer

str2.equals( str )

If you want to ignore case

str2.equalsIgnoreCase( str )

Answer 2

This line:

if(str2==${str}){ 

Should be:

if( str2 == str ) { 

The ${ and } will give you a parse error, as they should only be used inside Groovy Strings for templating