Go language program to compare two strings are equal or not

Following program shows you how to compare two strings are equal or not.
In this program we get strings from user and compare those strings using == method

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {

  var string1 string 
  var string2 string
  fmt.Println("Please enter first string:")
  fmt.Scanf("%s", &string1)
  fmt.Println("Please enter second string:")
  fmt.Scanf("%s", &string2)
  if (string1 == string2) {
  fmt.Println("Given strings are equal")
  } else {
    fmt.Println("Given strings are not equal")
  }
}

Output:

Example1:

Please enter first string:
 hello
Please enter second string:
 hello
Given strings are equal

Example2:

Please enter first string:
 hello
Please enter second string:
 HELLO
Given strings are not equal