internal doubt abou string and string buffer

[partha sarathy]

Dear friend,
String and stringBuffer have a diffrence.
-> they say if you declare a Object of String class then the contents of it can not be changed.But that is not the case in StringBuffer.My doubt is that I want a practical example to show that when i declare a string object the contents of it is unchanged and that if i declare a String buffer object its contents can be changed. PLease be brief in giving a solution.
awaiting a reply from any intellectual
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partha

[deekasha gunwant]

hi parth,
this code probably will help u.

public class Str
{
public static void main(String j[])
{
String s = new String("hello");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Hello");

String t;
StringBuffer t1;

t = s.concat(" parth"); // will make a new string object
t1 = sb.append(" parth"); // will append parth to buffer

System.out.println("string refereces"+ (s==t));[b]//prints false
System.out.println("buffer refereces"+sb==t1));//prints true

}
}
regards
deekasha

[Anonymous]

hi,
please check out this example that u wanted. Basically i am creating two string objects a and b first. the test a==b is true saying both are pointing to the same object. i am replacing a character in a. A new object is created as Strings are immutable. thus a==b test fails now as the two objects are not the same now.
this is not the same with StringBuffer. even though i have appended a character to ab this is reflected in bb also. and the objects pointed to by ab and bb still remain the same.
class demo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// both a and b in the code below point to the same object
String a=new String("hello");
String b=a;
if(a==b){
System.out.println(" a and b are equal");}
else{
System.out.println("false");
}
// a now points to a different object
a=a.replace('h','r');
System.out.println("a is"+a);
System.out.println("b is"+b);

// a is not equal to b as a new object is created
if(a==b){
System.out.println("true");}
else{
System.out.println("false");
}

// case of StringBuffer
StringBuffer ab=new StringBuffer("hello");
StringBuffer bb=ab;
if(ab==bb){
System.out.println("true");}
else{
System.out.println("false");
}
// ab still points to the same object
ab=ab.append('c');
System.out.println(ab);// ab contains helloc
System.out.println(bb);// bb also contains helloc

// ab equal to bb as no new object is created
if(ab==bb){
System.out.println("true");}
else{
System.out.println("false");
}

}
}