substring method

[Conrad Kirby]

Look:

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String myString = new String("12345") ;
String string2 ;
string2 = new String(myString.substring(5)) ;

I know this will throw an outofbounds exception but will it return ""?

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Conrad,
Your question is moot because the JVM specifies the following.

When an exception is thrown, control is transferred from the code that caused the exception to the nearest dynamically-enclosing catch clause of a try statement (�14.19) that handles the exception.

Since your code is not inside a try/catch block program control will go out of the method you are in to find one. If none is found the the JVM will stop your application/applet.
Regards,
Manfred.

[rani bedi]

I tried compiling it but didn't got any exception.
I think string2 gets initialized to a newly created String object so that it represents an empty character sequence.
String string2 = new String();

[Conrad Kirby]

Well, does it return ""? I guess I don't know a lot about excepions.

[Conrad Kirby]

thanx parameet. I forgot to show that the block of code was in a try statement. But as long as it returns "", i don't need a try statement.