The String Class's CompareTo Method

question 16

Multiple Choice

The String class's compareTo method

• A) compares two strings in a case-independent manner
• B) yields true or false
• C) yields 0 if the two strings are identical
• D) rerturns 1 if the first string comes lexically before the second string
• E) None of these

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