String and StringBuffer

[Nimish Patel]

hi all,

we can concate string using string class and stringbuffer class.
but what is better from both ?

suppose when long string concate process ,
which one better , string or string buffer ?

please advise me.

Thanks,
Nimish Patel

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

I'm going to move this to "Java in General (Beginner)" and then answer it.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

String catenation is implemented using StringBuffer. So, for example,

String s3 = s1 + s2;

will be compiled into something like

StringBuffer _tmp = new StringBuffer(s1);
_tmp.append(s2);
String s3 = _tmp.toString();

So really, they're the same. But if you're adding multiple Strings together, and you're doing it in a loop where performance matters, then you can generally write more efficient StringBuffer code by hand than the compiler will generate.