java question about strings
is it better to work in Java with strings using library that allows operations on Strings or it is better work with strings as an array of chars (so subsequently use operations where treat the string as an array of chars)
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use the
String class provided by the JDKTo elaborate a bit: The answer is: depends. In 98% of situations you'd want to just use
String, but there are some rare occasions where String just won't cut it (f. ex. socket programming, which I've been fighting with for 2 weeks or JNI). But unless you'd want to do something stupid with Java, String class is all you would ever needeven for socket stuff,
String is sufficient in most casesYeah, in most cases sure. The only instance when it's straight up wrong is when you want to parse http request with binary body and you need to find
\r\n\r\n (speaking from experience)you can (in principle) still use
Strings without reading it line by lineI'd love to elaborate, but maybe somewhere else
Guess uumm #share-knowledge is for that right?
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