is Object instance of MyClass

Question

I need to make equals function for MyClas.

public class MyClass
{
boolean equals(Object value)
  {
    if (... value is type of MyCLass ...)
      {
        return= ... check conditions...;
      } else return false;
  }
}

For this purpose I need to know if value of Object is type of MyClass. How to make it?

Answer 1

In order to check if value is of type MyClass use:

 if( value instanceof MyClass) 

Answer 2

instanceof operator is used to determine that. It's infix, so use it like so...

(value instanceof MyClass)