Chapter 13. Strings and Regular Expressions
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.
Character Sequences
As described in “Character Set” on page 161, the Java programming language ...
Get THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
