Last Updated on 12. June 2023 by Mario Oettler

Solidity’s string operations are very limited. This also affects comparing strings. The necessary steps to compare two strings are:

1. abi-encode both strings seperately:

bytes res1 = abi.encodePacked(<my_string_1>);

bytes res2 = abi.encodePacked(<my_string_2>);

• Create a keccak hash for each encoded result:

hash1 = keccak256(res1);

hash2 = keccak256(res2)

• Compare both hashes with

hash1 == hash2;

Example for comparing Strings in Solidity

This is a fully working example of how to compare two strings in Solidity:

pragma solidity 0.8.20;
contract CompareStrings{
    function compareStrings(string memory _s1, string memory _s2) public pure returns(bool areEual){
        return keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_s1)) == keccak256(abi.encodePacked(_s2));
    }
}