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Give output of the following method definition and also write the mathematical operation they carry out:


void test4(String x, String y)
{
    if(x.compareTo(y) > 0)
        System.out.println(x);
    else
        System.out.println(y);
}

if "AMIT" and "AMAN" are passed to the method.

Java

User Defined Methods

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Answer

AMIT

Working

The first differing characters of "AMIT" and "AMAN" are 'I' and 'A', respectively. So output of "AMIT".compareTo("AMAN") will be ASCII Code of 'I' - ASCII Code of 'A' ⇒ 73 - 65 ⇒ 8. The if condition is true so string x which is "AMIT" gets printed as the output.

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