Comparison

Determine if two strings match.

Example:

String name = "Phil";
if(name.equalsIgnoreCase("phil"))
{
 System.out.println("true");
}

Capitalization

There are methods in Java to change a string to UPPER or lower case.

Example:

String name = "Whitby";
System.out.println(name.toUpperCase());

Other

Here are a couple of additional helpful methods:

Index

To find if a string contains a letter or string use an Index method:

Example:

String word;
word = "Baseball";
System.out.println(word.indexOf( "e" ));

Output: 3

Substrings

Sometimes a string may contain multiple words. If you only want the first words entered, or the last word, you need a way to break that string up into individual words.

Example:

String word;
word = "Baseball";
System.out.println(word.substring(4));

Output:

ball