How to append to start of String?

Hi all,

i am having a doubt on how can i append
to the start of string,i tried few methods myself

of StringBuffer like append() but still
it gets appended to the end position
i tried Pattern and Matcher classes (m.start() for start position of string)
as well,but could'nt get the clue onto how to go ahead with appending
string to start position.

but i want to append it to the start position
For ex like String replaced="Placement Date"
i am trying to append "]" to the string
but after i append it shows me
result as "Placement Date]"
i wanted that string should
be "[Placement date]"

so any help and any suggestion onto which method
i must use will be realy great

Thanks in advance
Dhwani:>Winning is not important but it is the only thing.

Strings are immutable - once you create one, you can't change it. Now, that's not to say you can't create a new one like you want.

The simplest way would be to just 'add' them together:

If this is all you're doing, and you're not doing it a lot, it will work fine. You just need to be aware that there is some heavy overhead here, and doing it this way thousands or millions of times will cause SERIOUS performance/memory issues.

And if you do need to use StringBuffer (or even better StringBuilder) to improve performance, take a look at the insert method.

Hi All

Thanks a lot to fred rosenberger ,your post cleared
my lots of concepts on String,

Thanks a lot to Joanne Neal i used StringBuffer so
as to improve performance.

Things are working now,

Dhwani:>Winning is not important but it is the only thing.