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Why strings does not compare references?

Asked 2011-03-05T13:32:46.253
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I know it is special case but why == between strings returns if their value equals and not when their reference equals. Does it have something to do with overlloading operators?

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The equality operators (== and !=) are defined to compare the values of string objects, not references.

There was not any situation in which I had to compare the references but if you want to do so then you can use:

object.ReferenceEquals().
answered 2011-03-05T14:10:45.103

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