What will be the result if you assign a variable using new String and " " and call equals?.

If you create two strings as follows:

String a = new String("test");
String b = "test";

and call a.equals(b), the result will be true. The equals method in the String class compares the contents of the strings, not the references.

However, if you compare a == b, the result will be false, because == compares object references, and new String("test") creates a new object on the heap, while the string literal "test" is taken from the string pool.

Thus:

• a.equals(b) — true (contents are the same)
• a == b — false (different objects)

This is important to consider when comparing strings in Java.