doubt about String being cannt be changed !!!

[ansuman mohapatra]

You have created two strings containing names. Thus

String fname="John";
String lname="String"

How can you go about changing these strings to take new values within the same block of code?

1)
fname="Fred";
lname="Jones";
2)
String fname=new String("Fred");
String lname=new String("Jones");

3)
StringBuffer fname=new StringBuffer(fname);
StringBuffer lname=new StringBuffer(lname);


4) None of the above

I think the answer will be first one. Since once string is created we can change its value. I have checked it in eclipse.

But I got the answer as 4 none of the above since string cant be changed once created or assigned a value.

Please clarify

[gobburi saikrishna]

Yes answer is 4, because String are immutable, we can't change Strings,
but we can change StringBuffer And StringBuilder which are Mutable

[ansuman mohapatra]

thats what im trying to say. I have tried changing the value of the string.

String s = "Hello";
System.out.println(s);
s = "Hello2";
System.out.println(s);

Output came as
Hello
Hello2

Tried that in eclipse. Please clarify.

[Jesper de Jong]

You are not changing the value of the String object, you are only making the variable s refer to another String object.

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