- Support equals for strings.

- Submitted by Stan Silvert.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk@449639 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java b/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
index 3dda6d1..9ec8e6d 100644 (file)
--- a/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
+++ b/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ public class ELSupport {
             return obj0.equals(coerceToEnum(obj1, obj0.getClass()));
         } else if (obj1.getClass().isEnum()) {
             return obj1.equals(coerceToEnum(obj0, obj1.getClass()));
+        } else if (obj0 instanceof String || obj1 instanceof String) {
+            int lexCompare = coerceToString(obj0).compareTo(coerceToString(obj1));
+            return (lexCompare == 0) ? true : false;
         }
         if (isBigDecimalOp(obj0, obj1)) {
             BigDecimal bd0 = (BigDecimal) coerceToNumber(obj0, BigDecimal.class);