How to find words that are different between two Strings?

Question

I hope you are fine.

I am searching for a simple way to compare two Strings and print out the words which are unique between the two, for example I have :

String one = edittext1.getText().toString();
String two = editText2.getText().toString();

Then the output should be what is the words that exists in edittext1 and not exist in edittext2.

word by word are the same but what if it miss word or some words are different example of what i want https://text-compare.com/fr/ — HishamKanon, Oct 22 '20 at 12:22
but not whole code you didn't even started ... And you didn't even provide what you need "the words that are differet" ... it means : "this is first text example" and "example test first is this" are the same ... and then you are show some website whitch works different — Selvin, Oct 22 '20 at 12:25
this is what i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed compare between two small strings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don't need MainActivity.java i said i need to compare between two strings what is weird in that. — HishamKanon, Oct 22 '20 at 12:29
you may use `String.compareTo` or `String.equals` to compare strings :D — Selvin, Oct 22 '20 at 12:30
Does this answer your question? [How do I compare strings in Java?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/513832/how-do-i-compare-strings-in-java) — Nitin Zadage, Oct 22 '20 at 12:38

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 22 '20 at 19:36

if it's only words you can split the strings to string[] that each cell will contain 1 word only and then compare those words. Goes as follows:

String one = "this is first text example";
String two = "this is next text example";
String[] oneVals = one.split("\\ ");
String[] twoVals = two.split("\\ ");
int i = oneVals.length;
if(oneVals.length != twoVals.length)
{
    // determine what to do
}
String wordsNotMatching = "";
for(int j=0; j<i; j++)
{
    if((!oneVals[j].equals(twoVals[j])))
        wordsNotMatching += oneVals[j] + " ";
}
// wordNotMatching will contain all different words.

How to find words that are different between two Strings?

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