When to use new for assigning value to a String variable

[Vijay Tyagi]

String a="abcd";


String a=new String("abcd");

Are both of these statements correct ?

[W. Joe Smith]

Yes, although I believe it is preferred to use String a="abdc"; over String a =new String("abcd");.

[Siddhesh Deodhar]

String a="abcd";

- One object is created in string pool i.e. "abcd".

String b=new String("abcd");

- 2 objects are created. One object is created in string pool i.e. "abcd".. second in non-pool memory.


In this case a==b will return false. First approach is mostly used.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Have a look at the String constructors. Also try searching, because this subject or similar comes up about every other week, but "new String" will give you hundreds of irrelevant results, I am afraid.

[Jesper de Jong]

Vijay Tyagi wrote:String a="abcd";

String a=new String("abcd");

Are both of these statements correct ?

Both are correct (in the sense that you don't get a compiler or run-time error) but you should never need to use the second one. The second statement is less efficient (it always creates a new String object and copies the content of the String object that you pass in) and the code is also unnecessarily longer. Note that String objects in Java are immutable, so you do not need to make defensive copies of String objects.