The Java Program: Compare.java

  1 
  2 final class Compare {
  3 
  4    static void compare (String s1, String s2) {
  5       System.out.print ("\""+s1+"\"");
  6       if (s1.compareTo(s2) < 0) {
  7          System.out.print (" comes before ");
  8       } else {
  9          System.out.print (" does not come before ");
 10       }
 11       System.out.println ("\""+s2+"\".");
 12    }
 13 
 14 
 15    public static void main (String[] args) {
 16       final String a = "A";
 17       final String z = "Z";
 18       final String t = "to";
 19 
 20       compare (a, z);
 21       compare (t, z);
 22       compare (a, t);
 23 
 24    }
 25 
 26 }