String values

[Chris Davies]

hi

are the following 3 valid uses of string ?

String s ="i'm a string";
String s = (String) 'i'm a string';
String s = null;

cheers

chris

[Rikard Qvarforth]

String s = "i'm a string"; -- valid
String s = (String) 'i'm a string'; -- not valid , invalid char, no ''
String s = null; -- valid, can always set an object to null


cheers Rille

[Chris Davies]

String s = "i'm a string"; -- valid
String s = (String) 'i'm a string'; -- not valid , invalid char, no ''
String s = null; -- valid, can always set an object to null


so you can't expicitly cast an object to a value ? is it because string is not a wrapper class ?

cheers

chris

[Carol Enderlin]

Chris,

Did you try to compile your code snippet? A few compiler errors are worth a thousand words of explanation in a forum; OK, maybe only a hundred.

In any case, your example 2 uses single quotes.

Let me ask you (pull out your compiler please) is this one valid?

String s = (String) "i'm a string";

[Chris Davies]

yes i see it. its what i originally thought but number 2 threw me a bit in terms of casting.

cheers

chris