Re: Substring changes (JDK 1.7)

From:
Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:08:15 +0100
Message-ID:
<kcn3ir$fak$1@news.albasani.net>
Jan Burse schrieb:

Dear All,

 > Recent versions of the JDK do not reuse the backing char[].
 > The reason is that the offset and length fields have been
 > removed from String to save memory.

Did this affect some of your code?

Bye


Its from JDK 1.7 Update 10

Look see:

C:\Users\Jan Burse>java -version
java version "1.7.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_10-b18)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)

rt.jar:

public final class String
     implements java.io.Serializable, Comparable<String>, CharSequence {
     /** The value is used for character storage. */
     private final char value[];

     /** Cache the hash code for the string */
     private int hash; // Default to 0

     /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.0.2 for interoperability */
     private static final long serialVersionUID = -6849794470754667710L;

-- and --

     public String substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) {
         if (beginIndex < 0) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(beginIndex);
         }
         if (endIndex > value.length) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(endIndex);
         }
         int subLen = endIndex - beginIndex;
         if (subLen < 0) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(subLen);
         }
         return ((beginIndex == 0) && (endIndex == value.length)) ? this
                 : new String(value, beginIndex, subLen);
     }

-- and --

     public String(char value[], int offset, int count) {
         if (offset < 0) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(offset);
         }
         if (count < 0) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(count);
         }
         // Note: offset or count might be near -1>>>1.
         if (offset > value.length - count) {
             throw new StringIndexOutOfBoundsException(offset + count);
         }
         this.value = Arrays.copyOfRange(value, offset, offset+count);
     }

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