Immutability of Strings in Java

Question

Consider the following example.

String str = new String();

str  = \"Hello\";
System.out.println(str);  //Prints Hello

str = \"Help!\";
System.out.println(s         


        

Answer 1

If HELLO is your String then you can't change HELLO to HILLO. This property is called immutability property.

You can have multiple pointer String variable to point HELLO String.

But if HELLO is char Array then you can change HELLO to HILLO. Eg,

char[] charArr = 'HELLO';
char[1] = 'I'; //you can do this

Programming languages have immutable data variables so that it can be used as keys in key, value pair.