Re: Comparing 2 lists via contents?

[Marcus Crafter]

arrgghh.. *head bouncing off the wall*... thanks for pointing out the 
obvious mate :)

Cheers,
Marcus
Christoph Gaffga (triplemind.com) wrote:
have you tried:
collection1.equals(collection2)
I think, that was it.
regards,
Christoph Gaffga
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From: "Marcus Crafter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.commons.user
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:54 PM
Subject: Comparing 2 lists via contents?


Hi All,
Hope all is going well.
I'm looking for a particular method in List or Collection Utils but 
can't find it, must be going blind! ;)

I've got 2 lists, containing objects that are equal by value but not 
equal by reference (ie. a.equals(b) is true, but a == b is false).

CollectionUtils.isEqualsCollection(Collection, Collection) seems to work 
by comparing whether the objects are equal by reference, ie. whether a 
== b is true.

Is there something similar for comparing the contents of 2 lists by 
value, perhaps somewhere that I've missed?

Cheers,
Marcus

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