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How do two identical strings not equal each other?

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Why do both of these alert to false?

alert('a‌' == 'a');

alert('a‌' === 'a');

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answered 13 Years ago katia · Accepted Answer

Is this a trick? Did you generate those a's with some special unicode magic? I deleted the a's and re-typed them, and now both alerts show true, as they should

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