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String Concatenation in Java
In Java, String concatenation forms a new String that is the combination of
multiple strings. There are two ways to concatenate strings in Java:
1. By + (String concatenation) operator
2. By concat() method
1) String Concatenation by + (String
concatenation) operator
Java String concatenation operator (+) is used to add strings. For Example:
TestStringConcatenation1.java
class TestStringConcatenation1{
public static void main(String args[]){
String s="Sachin"+" Tendulkar";
System.out.println(s);//Sachin Tendulkar
}
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Output:
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Sachin Tendulkar
The Java compiler transforms above code to this:
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String s=
(new StringBuilder()).append("Sachin").append(" Tendulkar).toString();
In Java, String concatenation is implemented through the StringBuilder (or
StringBuffer) class and it's append method. String concatenation operator
produces a new String by appending the second operand onto the end of the
first operand. The String concatenation operator can concatenate not only
String but primitive values also. For Example:
TestStringConcatenation2.java
class TestStringConcatenation2{
public static void main(String args[]){
String s=50+30+"Sachin"+40+40;
System.out.println(s);//80Sachin4040
}
}
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Output:
80Sachin4040
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Note: After a string literal, all the + will be treated as string concatenation
operator.
2) String Concatenation by concat() method
The String concat() method concatenates the specified string to the end of
current string. Syntax:
public String concat(String another)
Let's see the example of String concat() method.
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TestStringConcatenation3.java
class TestStringConcatenation3{
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public static void main(String args[]){
String s1="Sachin ";
String s2="Tendulkar";
String s3=s1.concat(s2);
System.out.println(s3);//Sachin Tendulkar
}
}
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Output:
Sachin Tendulkar
The above Java program, concatenates two String objects s1 and s2 using
concat() method and stores the result into s3 object.
There are some other possible ways to concatenate Strings in Java,
1. String concatenation using StringBuilder class
StringBuilder is class provides append() method to perform concatenation
operation. The append() method accepts arguments of different types like
Objects, StringBuilder, int, char, CharSequence, boolean, float, double.
StringBuilder is the most popular and fastet way to concatenate strings in Java.
It is mutable class which means values stored in StringBuilder objects can be
updated or changed.
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StrBuilder.java
public class StrBuilder
{
/* Driver Code */
public static void main(String args[])
{
StringBuilder s1 = new StringBuilder("Hello"); //String 1
StringBuilder s2 = new StringBuilder(" World"); //String 2
StringBuilder s = s1.append(s2); //String 3 to store the result
System.out.println(s.toString()); //Displays result
}
}
Output:
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Hello World
In the above code snippet, s1, s2 and s are declared as objects of StringBuilder
class. s stores the result of concatenation of s1 and s2 using append() method.
2. String concatenation using format() method
String.format() method allows to concatenate multiple strings using format
specifier like %s followed by the string values or objects.
StrFormat.java
public class StrFormat
{
/* Driver Code */
public static void main(String args[])
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{
String s1 = new String("Hello"); //String 1
String s2 = new String(" World"); //String 2
String s = String.format("%s%s",s1,s2); //String 3 to store the result
System.out.println(s.toString()); //Displays result
}
}
Output:
Hello World
Here, the String objects s is assigned the concatenated result of Strings s1 and
s2 using String.format() method. format() accepts parameters as format
specifier followed by String objects or values.
3. String concatenation using String.join() method (Java
Version 8+)
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The String.join() method is available in Java version 8 and all the above versions.
String.join() method accepts arguments first a separator and an array of String
objects.
StrJoin.java:
public class StrJoin
{
/* Driver Code */
public static void main(String args[])
{
String s1 = new String("Hello"); //String 1
String s2 = new String(" World"); //String 2
String s = String.join("",s1,s2); //String 3 to store the result
System.out.println(s.toString()); //Displays result
}
}
Output:
Hello World
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In the above code snippet, the String object s stores the result of
String.join("",s1,s2) method. A separator is specified inside quotation marks
followed by the String objects or array of String objects.
4. String concatenation using StringJoiner class (Java
Version 8+)
StringJoiner class has all the functionalities of String.join() method. In advance
its constructor can also accept optional arguments, prefix and suffix.
StrJoiner.java
public class StrJoiner
{
/* Driver Code */
public static void main(String args[])
{
StringJoiner s = new StringJoiner(", "); //StringeJoiner object
s.add("Hello"); //String 1
s.add("World"); //String 2
System.out.println(s.toString()); //Displays result
}
}
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Output:
Hello, World
In the above code snippet, the StringJoiner object s is declared and the
constructor StringJoiner() accepts a separator value. A separator is specified
inside quotation marks. The add() method appends Strings passed as
arguments.
5. String concatenation using Collectors.joining() method
(Java (Java Version 8+)
The Collectors class in Java 8 offers joining() method that concatenates the input
elements in a similar order as they occur.
ColJoining.java
import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
public class ColJoining
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{
/* Driver Code */
public static void main(String args[])
{
List<String> liststr = Arrays.asList("abc", "pqr", "xyz"); //List of String array
String str = liststr.stream().collect(Collectors.joining(", ")); //performs joining o
System.out.println(str.toString()); //Displays result
}
}
Output:
abc, pqr, xyz
Here, a list of String array is declared. And a String object str stores the result of
Collectors.joining() method.
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