Problem in comparision of two strings.please help..

Question

I am retriving a string password from database and another string from html(user entered one).when i am printing those two strings its printing same strings.But whenever i am comparing strings and printing its not showing equal it is printing as false.what might be the reason.please help me regarding this.Thank you in advance.My cosing is as follows:
while(rs.next())
pwd=rs.getString("password");
System.out.println("pmfg is..."+pwd);
System.out.println("first string..."+pwd);
System.out.println("second string..."+loginpwd);
if(pwd.equals(loginpwd))
System.out.println("true.....");
else
System.out.println("false....");

Answer 1

once you got two string objects ......forget for where they are comming (database or html0 ....focus on those objects ....do the following
1) use trim() function on both strings which removes the whitespaces from front and end
2) use equalsIgnoreCase
if the problem still persists ....then forget your code and sue the SUN people