In Java, we don’t need to write “THEN.” Instead, we use an open curly bracket to say that everything that follows is part of that “code block” and should run under the conditions we specify.

The next two code listings show String comparisons performed with the traditional if-else using equals approach and the newly available switching on strings approach. StringsWithIfElseDemo.java ...

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