strings are immutable!!

[Harsha Vardhan Madiraju]

We say Strings are immutable but the following code is working fine, pls justify
String s="Java";
s=s+"Technology";
System.out.pritnln(s);

[m bhramaresh]

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[Ruben Steins]

String s="Java";
s=s+"Technology";
System.out.println(s);

s is a reference to the String "Java" at first, and becomes a reference to a brand new String "JavaTechnology". The first String will become garbage (provided no other references to it exist), but remains unchanged, hence the immutable.

[himanshu patel]

Originally posted by Harsha Vardhan Madiraju:
We say Strings are immutable but the following code is working fine, pls justify
String s="Java";
s=s+"Technology";
System.out.pritnln(s);

String s="Java";
is internally converted to,
String s = new String("Java");

So here new object of String class is being created and reference is
assigned to variable 's';
s=s+"Technology";
Here new object is being created and reference is being assigned to
variable 's' and thus reference to Object 'Java' is overwritten.
Immutable means we can not change content of object but can change
reference assigned to it.
For more info, check this link.
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~csc101/studynotes/Strings.htm