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Can someone provide clarification of the toString method and overriding it in classes to print "meaningful" information? I have been asked to implement the toString method in classes but can only find a paragraph on this method in 2 different books. Any additional/practicle information would be appreciated.

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Mitch,
By default the toString() method outputs a hash representing the memory address. Often, we overwrite this to contain useful information about the state of the object (such as the values of it's fields.) As an example,
 
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Thank you.

And then, how do you call the toString from another class?

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either
System.out.println( myObject );
or
System.out.println( myObject.toString() );

It makes no never mind.
 
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Appending an object reference to a String using the + operator will call toStrnig() on the reference (or append "null" if it's null) for you.
 
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