Hello ,

I a facing a strange issue while comparing two strings.

Scenario :

I have a custom link on account which is of type URl. the code for which is mentioned below

/apex/StringComparison?Id={!Account.Id}&start='account'

StringComparison.page code :

<apex:page standardController="Account" extensions="StringComparisonErrorV24">

</apex:page>

StringComparisonErrorV24 code :

public class StringComparisonErrorV24 {

    public StringComparisonErrorV24(ApexPages.StandardController controller) {
   
       System.debug('### StringComparisonErrorV24 constructor execution started...');
       String rID = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('id');         
       String startedFrom = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('start');
      
       System.debug('### rID  --> '+rID);
       System.debug('### startedFrom --> '+startedFrom);

       if(startedFrom.equals('account')) {
            System.debug('### they are same');
        }
       System.debug('### StringComparisonErrorV24 constructor execution finished...');    
         
    }

   }

Issue :

When i am clicking on the custom link the line if(startedFrom.equals('account')) is returning false .

I was thinking of it should be returning true since I have hardcoded the same URL parameter. As a result i never

got '### they are same' line printed. 

the debug log says the URL parameter is 'account'.

04:33:36.019 (19155000)|USER_DEBUG|[9]|DEBUG|### rID  --> 00190000002g6xp
04:33:36.019 (19161000)|SYSTEM_METHOD_EXIT|[9]|System.debug(ANY)
04:33:36.019 (19174000)|SYSTEM_METHOD_ENTRY|[10]|System.debug(ANY)
04:33:36.019 (19184000)|USER_DEBUG|[10]|DEBUG|### startedFrom --> 'account'

Any thought would be of great help.

Thanks

Indranil