Java Reference
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arrays whose components are of type
int
are instances of the same array type, which is
int[]
.
10.9. An Array of Characters is Not a
String
In the Java programming language, unlike C, an array of
char
is not a
String
, and neither a
String
nor an array of
char
is terminated by '
\u0000
' (the NUL character).
A
String
object is immutable, that is, its contents never change, while an array of
char
has
mutable elements.
The method
toCharArray
in class
String
returns an array of characters containing the
same character sequence as a
String
. The class
StringBuffer
implements useful methods
on mutable arrays of characters.
