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Strings!

Posted by sebastian on December 13, 2001 at 5:49 PM

does anyone now what the problem is when a String seems to be shorter than it really is in bytes?
I have a String s (that i get from the last element of an array of Strings)
And if i print it, it looks totally normal, say like this "hello". But when i call s.length() its 249 long.
and therefore "hello".equals(s) returns false. I cant print more than "hello".length() characters if i call println(s).
but if i convert the strings to bytes it turns out that all bytes except the 5 first (if its "hello") are 0.
Now, how can i get the String s to equal what i want it to equal, namely a String of length 5 containing the sequence "hello"?
thanks.
/sebastian

• String :-) Senthoor December 13, 2001 at 7:01 PM (0)