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why String objects get created without new and constructor

Posted by saddy on November 30, 2000 at 1:27 PM

Why the objects of String class get created without new and constructor. i.e.

String s = "Hello world";

works fine and we can use all the methods defined in String class on the object s, thus the object is created but what i learned was that the "new" operator allocates memory and constructor initialzes or construcs the object but in this case both are missing, i am really confused so please help me out
saddy

• Re: why String objects get created without new and constructor Kishori Sharan November 30, 2000 at 4:30 PM (3)
  • please explain the difference "to kishori" saddy November 30, 2000 at 10:06 PM (2)
    • String explained !!! Kishori Sharan December 01, 2000 at 10:12 AM (1)
      • about heap senthil March 17, 2001 at 2:38 PM (0)