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Java String Class

The Java String class is immutable, meaning strings cannot be changed once created. Strings can be concatenated using the + and += operators. Two useful string methods are equals() to compare strings and substring() to extract a portion of a string. Strings are created using string literals in double quotes or by converting other objects like byte arrays, char arrays, and StringBuffers.

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Java String Class

The Java String class is immutable, meaning strings cannot be changed once created. Strings can be concatenated using the + and += operators. Two useful string methods are equals() to compare strings and substring() to extract a portion of a string. Strings are created using string literals in double quotes or by converting other objects like byte arrays, char arrays, and StringBuffers.

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Strings in java

Java String Class is immutable, i.e. Strings in java, once created and initialized, cannot be changed on the same reference. A java.lang.String class is final which implies no class and extend it. The java.lang.String class differs from other classes, one difference being that the String objects can be used with the += and + operators for concatenation. Two useful methods for String objects are equals( ) and substring( ). The equals( ) method is used for testing whether two Strings contain the same value. The substring( ) method is used to obtain a selected portion of a String.

Java.lang.String class creation


A simple String can be created using a string literal enclosed inside double quotes as shown; String str1 = My name is bob; Since a string literal is a reference, it can be manipulated like any other String reference. The reference value of a string literal can be assigned to another String reference. If 2 or more Strings have the same set of characters in the same sequence then they share the same reference in memory. Below illustrates this phenomenon. String str1 = My name is bob; String str2 = My name is bob; String str3 = My name + is bob; //Compile time expression String name = bob; String str4 = My name is + name; String str5 = new String(My name is bob); In the above code all the String references str1, str2 and str3 denote the same String object, initialized with the character string: My name is bob. But the Strings str4 and str5 denote new String objects. Constructing String objects can also be done from arrays of bytes, arrays of characters, or string buffers. A simple way to convert any primitive value to its string representation is by concatenating it with the empty string (), using the string concatenation operator (+). public class StringsDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { byte[] bytes = {2, 4, 6, 8};

char[] characters = {'a', 'b', 'C', 'D'}; StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer("abcde"); // Examples of Creation of Strings String byteStr = new String(bytes); String charStr = new String(characters); String buffStr = new String(strBuffer); System.out.println("byteStr : "+byteStr); System.out.println("charStr : "+charStr); System.out.println("buffStr : "+buffStr); } } Output byteStr : charStr : abCD buffStr : abcde

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