Cast from StringBuffer to String

[Reggie McDougal]

How do I cast a stringBuffer to a string?

  
 
StringBuffer astring = new StringBuffer();
 
astring = " some really longstring that has 1000 caharacters and line breaks";
 
String astring = (String)astring

Is the is right way to go?

Matt

[Andrew Eccleston]

You will want to use the append() method of StringBuffer when adding to string data in a StringBuffer object. Then, call StringBuffer's toString() method to return the entire contents as a string value.

StringBuffer astring = new StringBuffer();
 
astring.append(" some really longstring that has 1000 caharacters and line breaks");
 
String newAstring = astring.toString();

To be honest, the biggest thing you can do to help yourself out, is to familiarize yourself with the api documentation at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/. The StringBuffer class is in the java.lang package (on the left side).

andrew

[ December 02, 2004: Message edited by: Andrew Eccleston ]
[ December 02, 2004: Message edited by: Andrew Eccleston ]