String VS StringBuffer

[Suresh Rajadurai]

Hi Folks,

I have a confusion over the declaration of String & StringBuffer literals.

Statement 1: String s = "its a new string";
Statement 2: StringBuffer s = "Its a new string buffer";

Why , the 2nd statement gives compilation error?. But if I replace the statement with:

StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer("its a new string buffer");

it does not give compilation error.


Could anybody please throw some light on it.


much appreciated,

thanks

Suresh

[Ulf Dittmer]

"its a new string" is a String, not a StringBuffer. As such, it can't be assigned to a StringBuffer. String literals only work as Strings, not for any other classes.

" new StringBuffer("its a new string buffer") " converts a String to a StringBuffer, so it can be assigned to one.