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There are plenty of tutorials for == and === so please don't guide me to a basic tutorial, my question is a bit more specific: For example http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_string.asp states that: Syntax: var txt = new String("string"); // or more simply: var txt = "string"; Good, but what about this? alert(new String("a") == new String("a")); // false alert("a" == "a"); // true var a = new String("a"); var b = new String("a"); alert(a == b); // false var c = "a"; var d = "a"; alert(c == d); // true alert(c === d); // true alert (a === c); // false Of course nobody calls new String() anyway, but is it something about the equality failing because new String() is handled as an object not as a string? And of course W3Schools is not the most trusted source but I would have expected all of the above alerts to say true. Please explain.
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