How to convert a char array back to a string?

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chutsu picture chutsu · Oct 5, 2011 · Viewed 742k times · Source

I have a char array:

char[] a = {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'};

My current solution is to do 

String b = new String(a);

But surely there is a better way of doing this?

Answer

A.H. picture A.H. · Oct 5, 2011

No, that solution is absolutely correct and very minimal.

Note however, that this is a very unusual situation: Because String is handled specially in Java, even "foo" is actually a String. So the need for splitting a String into individual chars and join them back is not required in normal code.

Compare this to C/C++ where "foo" you have a bundle of chars terminated by a zero byte on one side and string on the other side and many conversions between them due do legacy methods.

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