Method: String#eql?

Defined in:
string.c

#eql?(object) ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if object has the same length and content;

as +self+; +false+ otherwise:

  s = 'foo'
  s.eql?('foo') # => true
  s.eql?('food') # => false
  s.eql?('FOO') # => false

Returns +false+ if the two strings' encodings are not compatible:

  "\u{e4 f6 fc}".encode("ISO-8859-1").eql?("\u{c4 d6 dc}") # => false

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'string.c', line 4181

VALUE
rb_str_eql(VALUE str1, VALUE str2)
{
    if (str1 == str2) return Qtrue;
    if (!RB_TYPE_P(str2, T_STRING)) return Qfalse;
    return rb_str_eql_internal(str1, str2);
}