Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

14. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.

—Hilaire Belloc

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.

—William Strunk, Jr.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

—Blaise Pascal

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

Create and manipulate immutable character-string objects of class String.

Create and manipulate mutable character-string objects of class StringBuilder ...