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edited Mar 14, 2014 at 0:58

Java - 162162 147 characters

The idea is to compare the difference of each byte, same bytes will have difference 0. The program will throw java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for when bytes are different (try to access a negative index) or when strings are of different length. It will catch the exception and return 0 (strings not equal), or return 1 otherwise (strings equal).

Compressed:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
byte[]x=a.getBytes(),y=b.getBytes();int c=az,i=a.length(),d=b-b.length(),z,i=0;try;try{for(;i<(c>d?c:byte d);i++:x){z=(x[i]z=d-y[i]);z=x[y[i];z=x[-z*z];z*z];i++;}}catch(Exception e){return 0;}return 1;

Normal:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
 
byte[] byteArrA = a.getBytes();
byte[] byteArrB = b.getBytes();

int aLenbyteDifference = 0;
int i = a.length();
int bLen =- b.length();
 
int byteDifference = 0;
try {
    for (int i = 0; i < (aLen > bLen ?byte aLenaByte : bLen); i++byteArrA) {
        byteDifference = (byteArrA[i]aByte - byteArrB[i]);byteArrB[i];
        byteDifference = byteArrA[-byteDifference*byteDifference];
        i++;
    }
} catch (Exception e){
    return 0;
}

return 1;

Java - 162 characters

Compressed:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
byte[]x=a.getBytes(),y=b.getBytes();int c=a.length(),d=b.length(),z,i=0;try{for(;i<(c>d?c:d);i++){z=(x[i]-y[i]);z=x[-z*z];}}catch(Exception e){return 0;}return 1;

Normal:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
 
byte[] byteArrA = a.getBytes();
byte[] byteArrB = b.getBytes();

int aLen = a.length();
int bLen = b.length();
 
int byteDifference = 0;
try {
    for (int i = 0; i < (aLen > bLen ? aLen : bLen); i++) {
        byteDifference = (byteArrA[i] - byteArrB[i]);
        byteDifference = byteArrA[-byteDifference*byteDifference];
    }
} catch (Exception e){
    return 0;
}

return 1;

Java - 162 147 characters

Compressed:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
byte[]x=a.getBytes(),y=b.getBytes();int z,i=a.length()-b.length();try{for(byte d:x){z=d-y[i];z=x[-z*z];i++;}}catch(Exception e){return 0;}return 1;

Normal:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
byte[] byteArrA = a.getBytes();
byte[] byteArrB = b.getBytes();

int byteDifference = 0;
int i = a.length() - b.length();

try {
    for (byte aByte : byteArrA) {
        byteDifference = aByte - byteArrB[i];
        byteDifference = byteArrA[-byteDifference*byteDifference];
        i++;
    }
} catch (Exception e){
    return 0;
}

return 1;

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created Mar 12, 2014 at 23:13

Hopper Hunter

Java - 162 characters

Compressed:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";
byte[]x=a.getBytes(),y=b.getBytes();int c=a.length(),d=b.length(),z,i=0;try{for(;i<(c>d?c:d);i++){z=(x[i]-y[i]);z=x[-z*z];}}catch(Exception e){return 0;}return 1;

Normal:

String a = "12345";
String b = "12345";

byte[] byteArrA = a.getBytes();
byte[] byteArrB = b.getBytes();

int aLen = a.length();
int bLen = b.length();

int byteDifference = 0;
try {
    for (int i = 0; i < (aLen > bLen ? aLen : bLen); i++) {
        byteDifference = (byteArrA[i] - byteArrB[i]);
        byteDifference = byteArrA[-byteDifference*byteDifference];
    }
} catch (Exception e){
    return 0;
}

return 1;