comparing two strings in ruby

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I ve just started to learn ruby and this is probably very easy to solve  How do I compare two strings in Ruby   I ve tried the following    puts var1    var2   false  should be true  I think  puts var1 eql  var2    false  should be true  I think    When I try to echo them to console so I can compare values visually  I do this    puts var1   prints  test content  without quotes puts var2   prints   test content   with quotes and braces   Ultimately are these different types of strings of how do I compare these two

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Here are some    Ali  eql   Ali    gt  true   The spaceship   lt   gt   method can be used to compare two strings in relation to their alphabetical ranking  The  lt    method returns 0 if the strings are identical  -1 if the left hand string is less than the right hand string  and 1 if it is greater    Apples   lt   gt   Apples    gt  0   Apples   lt   gt   Pears    gt  -1   Pears   lt   gt   Apples    gt  1   A case insensitive comparison may be performed using the casecmp method which returns the same values as the  lt    method described above    Apples  casecmp  apples    gt  0

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var1 is a regular string  whereas var2 is an array  this is how you should compare  in this case    puts var1    var2 0

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From what you printed  it seems var2 is an array containing one string  Or actually  it appears to hold the result of running  inspect on an array containing one string   It would be helpful to show how you are initializing them   irb main  005 0  v1    test    gt   test  irb main  006 0 gt  v2     test     gt    test   irb main  007 0 gt  v3   v2 inspect   gt      test     irb main  008 0 gt  puts v1 v2 v3 test test   test

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Comparison of strings is very easy in Ruby   v1    string1  v2    string2  puts v1    v2   prints false puts  hello    there    prints false v1    string2  puts v1    v2   prints true   Make sure your var2 is not an array  which seems to be like

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