string concatenation

[akhil achuthan]

if i concatenate two strings, can i later retreive the two strings separately... i.e. without manually separating them(by coding)....
for eg if i concatenate two strings A&B=AB, i need to get A and B back separately as before..... is there any function or method for that

[Mandar Max]

There is no way to find out whether a string is a result of concatenation of two strings.

I am wondering why would you like to do that?

[Garrett Rowe]

I don't understand what you mean, if you refer to the conatenated String by a unique reference, youi can still hold references to the original Strings.

public static void main(String[] args)
{
   String a = "A";
   String b = "B";
 
   String concat = a + b;
 
   System.out.println(concat);
   System.out.println(a);
   System.out.println(b);
}

[ April 25, 2006: Message edited by: Garrett Rowe ]