Why String is not a primitive data type

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Musarath

  • Jun 24th, 2006
 

The primitive datatypes are nothing but the basic data types..like int,char,float,double etc..Char is a datatype which stores 2 bits of data..String has been derived from Char which takes more number of Char and integers..providing the more memory storage...Its not a primitive coz it is a basic datatype...Its advancement of char..So its not a primitive datatype

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bhargavi

  • Jun 27th, 2006
 

As balaji has asked a nice question that " why double is a primitive data type as it came from float?" As double is the default data type given to the floating point-numbers.Naturally when we declare float f =0;---------the memory occupied to it is double.Inorder to use memory effectively,we go for float as float f=0.0f;As double is not a two float.

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Guest

  • Jun 29th, 2006
 

There are two types of datatype 1. primitive 2. Object

I think String can also be primitive and Object type.

If u write String a = "rabbi"; then the String will be used as primitive datatype.

But If u write String a = new String("rabbi"); then String will be used by Object datatype.

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Suri

  • Jul 1st, 2006
 

I think both:

String a= "abc"; and String a = new String("abc");

are the same.

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rabbi

  • Jul 2nd, 2006
 

You r right Suri

Strings are immutable , so
String a = "abc";
is same as
String a = new String("abc");

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Ananth Murthy

  • Jul 4th, 2006
 

Float and double both occupy fixed amount of memory irrespective of what number it holds. But String is an object. Memory allocation depends on the content

Amit

  • Jul 18th, 2006
 

The Main reason behind is that when we talk about primitive data type

Lets say for ex int i=5 , it means in memory where we have i , if we will access the contents there we will get the value 5.

But in case of a String , when we say

String s="abe";

when we try to access the contents of s we get the address where we have "abc".

sravani

  • Jul 26th, 2006
 

String is a predefined class and it is not a data type

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balaji

  • Jul 26th, 2006
 

hi ..

 thank for ur reply

now its clear

bye

keep smiling and mailing

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gitansh

  • Nov 30th, 2016
 

No its not like this, when a String is declared in double quotes, it actually means a reference from the String Pool, where this literal is already stored and for better understanding, one can see the intern method of String class.

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vivek

  • Aug 25th, 2017
 

Strings are data types that can hold everything and by everything I mean primitives types as well as user defined types. Moreover the meaning of word string is something which connected for e.g a thread used in clothes is called strings also guitar has string ever wondered why its called so. So basically strings are made up Java developers to hold everything

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harry

  • Nov 2nd, 2017
 

Very first I would like to tell you that String not a data type its Final class and that present in java.lang package and its a drive class Question is that Why it is derived class

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