String is immutable. What exactly is the meaning? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You are actually getting a reference to a new string, the string itself is not being changed as it is immutable. This is relevant.

See

Immutable objects on Wikipedia

Answer 2

String S1="abc";
S1.concat("xyz");
System.out.println("S1 is", + S1);
String S2=S1.concat("def");
System.out.println("S2 is", + S2);

This shows that once a string object is create it cannot be changed. EveryTime you need to create new and put in another String. S

Answer 3

You're changing what a refers to. Try this:

String a="a";
System.out.println("a 1-->"+a);
String b=a;
a="ty";
System.out.println("a 2-->"+a);
System.out.println("b  -->"+b);

You will see that the object to which a and then b refers has not changed.

If you want to prevent your code from changing which object a refers to, try:

final String a="a";

Answer 4

see here

class ImmutableStrings {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        testmethod();
    }

    private static void testmethod() {
    String a="a";
    System.out.println("a 1-->"+a);
    System.out.println("a 1 address-->"+a.hashCode());

    a = "ty";
    System.out.println("a 2-->"+a);

       System.out.println("a 2 address-->"+a.hashCode());
    }
}

output:

a 1-->a
a 1 address-->97
a 2-->ty
a 2 address-->3717

This indicates that whenever you are modifying the content of immutable string object a a new object will be created. i.e you are not allowed to change the content of immutable object. that's why the address are different for both the object.

Answer 5

Java String is immutable, String will Store the value in the form of object. so if u assign the value String a="a"; it will create an object and the value is stored in that and again if you are assigning value a="ty" means it will create an another object store the value in that, if you want to understand clearly, check the has code for the String.

Answer 6

String is immutable means that you cannot change the object itself, but you can change the reference to the object.

When you execute a = "ty", you are actually changing the reference of a to a new object created by the String literal "ty".

Changing an object means to use its methods to change one of its fields (or the fields are public and not final, so that they can be updated from outside without accessing them via methods), for example:

Foo x = new Foo("the field");
x.setField("a new field");
System.out.println(x.getField()); // prints "a new field"

While in an immutable class (declared as final, to prevent modification via inheritance)(its methods cannot modify its fields, and also the fields are always private and recommended to be final), for example String, you cannot change the current String but you can return a new String, i.e:

String s = "some text";
s.substring(0,4);
System.out.println(s); // still printing "some text"
String a = s.substring(0,4);
System.out.println(a); // prints "some"