android - Regex Capture not equal to String of equal value -

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both strings appear same when printed console, not when compared using "=="

what doing wrong here?

string message = "rejected | ref id: captureme | name:";    pattern pattern = pattern.compile("\\bref id:\\s+(\\s+)");       matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(message);  string matchedref = matcher.group(1);  system.out.print(matchedref);     

prints: captureme

string myref = "captureme";  if(matchedref == myref){ system.out.print(true); } else{ system.out.print(false); } 

prints: false

to compare strings need use equals() method, not == operator.

if(matchedref.equals(myref)){     system.out.print(true); } else{     system.out.print(false); } 

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