August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 39m
English
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? | ||
| --Dr. Who, The Two Doctors | ||
Strings are standard objects with built-in language support. You have already seen many examples of using string literals to create string objects. You've also seen the + and += operators that concatenate strings to create new strings. The String class, however, has much more functionality to offer. String objects are immutable (read-only), so you also have a StringBuilder class for mutable strings. This chapter describes String and StringBuilder and some related classes, including utilities for regular expression matching.
As described in “Character Set” on page 161, the Java programming language ...