How to compare the contents of two string objects in PowerShell

Question

In PowerShell I have an array of string objects  and I have an object that contains string objects  In Java you can do a  equals aObject  to test if the string values match  whereas doing a    test if the two objects refer to the same location in memory   How do I run an equivalent  equals aObject  in powershell   I m doing this    arrayOfStrings 0  Title -matches  myObject item 0  Title   These both have the exact same string values  but I get a return value of false  Any suggestions

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You can do it in two different ways   Option 1  The -eq operator   gt  a    is   gt  b    fission   gt  c    is   gt  a -eq  c True  gt  a -eq  b False   Option 2  The  Equals   method of the string object  Because strings in PowerShell are  Net System String objects  any method of that object can be called directly    gt  a equals  b  False  gt  a equals  c  True  gt  a get-member -membertype method   List of System String methods follows

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You want to do  arrayOfString 0  Title -eq  myPbiject item 0  Title  -match is for regex matching   the second argument is a regex

[powershell] How to compare the contents of two string objects in PowerShell

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