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String initialisation in local variables

Posted by Jody Brown on November 01, 2001 at 7:52 AM

Hiran,

I understand what is happening now. Local variables arent assigned a default value when they are declared. So the line:

String nextLocName;

will throw the error you are seeing at compile time. It has not been initialised, not even to null.

If you changed it to:

String nextLocName = null;

it would pass at compile time. If you tried to use it though it will throw a NullPointerException because while it has been initialised, it still has no object reference. This isnt a problem for you though, because you are checking for the null status of the string after the declaration.

I hope this helps.

Jody

• Thnx Hiran November 07, 2001 at 4:31 PM (0)