== and .equals difference?

Question

Sololearn told me to use == to test if something was equal to something. But a error happened so I asked chatgpt and it said I should use .equals? If(variable == (1)) is wrong! It was, if(variable.equals (1))

Answer 1

== checks the equality of a reference in memory; equals() checks the equality of values.

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