src/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
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rev 8642 : 7174936: several String methods claim to always create new String
Reviewed-by: XXX
@@ -1896,11 +1896,11 @@
return start - sourceOffset + 1;
}
}
/**
- * Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. The
+ * Returns a string that is a substring of this string. The
* substring begins with the character at the specified index and
* extends to the end of this string. <p>
* Examples:
* <blockquote><pre>
* "unhappy".substring(2) returns "happy"
@@ -1924,11 +1924,11 @@
}
return (beginIndex == 0) ? this : new String(value, beginIndex, subLen);
}
/**
- * Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. The
+ * Returns a string that is a substring of this string. The
* substring begins at the specified {@code beginIndex} and
* extends to the character at index {@code endIndex - 1}.
* Thus the length of the substring is {@code endIndex-beginIndex}.
* <p>
* Examples:
@@ -1961,11 +1961,11 @@
return ((beginIndex == 0) && (endIndex == value.length)) ? this
: new String(value, beginIndex, subLen);
}
/**
- * Returns a new character sequence that is a subsequence of this sequence.
+ * Returns a character sequence that is a subsequence of this sequence.
*
* <p> An invocation of this method of the form
*
* <blockquote><pre>
* str.subSequence(begin, end)</pre></blockquote>
@@ -1973,16 +1973,17 @@
* behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation
*
* <blockquote><pre>
* str.substring(begin, end)</pre></blockquote>
*
+ * @apiNote
* This method is defined so that the {@code String} class can implement
* the {@link CharSequence} interface.
*
* @param beginIndex the begin index, inclusive.
* @param endIndex the end index, exclusive.
- * @return the specified subsequence.
+ * @return the specified substring.
*
* @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException
* if {@code beginIndex} or {@code endIndex} is negative,
* if {@code endIndex} is greater than {@code length()},
* or if {@code beginIndex} is greater than {@code endIndex}
@@ -1996,12 +1997,12 @@
/**
* Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string.
* <p>
* If the length of the argument string is {@code 0}, then this
- * {@code String} object is returned. Otherwise, a new
- * {@code String} object is created, representing a character
+ * {@code String} object is returned. Otherwise, a
+ * {@code String} object is returned, representing a character
* sequence that is the concatenation of the character sequence
* represented by this {@code String} object and the character
* sequence represented by the argument string.<p>
* Examples:
* <blockquote><pre>
@@ -2024,17 +2025,17 @@
str.getChars(buf, len);
return new String(buf, true);
}
/**
- * Returns a new string resulting from replacing all occurrences of
+ * Returns a string resulting from replacing all occurrences of
* {@code oldChar} in this string with {@code newChar}.
* <p>
* If the character {@code oldChar} does not occur in the
* character sequence represented by this {@code String} object,
* then a reference to this {@code String} object is returned.
- * Otherwise, a new {@code String} object is created that
+ * Otherwise, a {@code String} object is returned that
* represents a character sequence identical to the character sequence
* represented by this {@code String} object, except that every
* occurrence of {@code oldChar} is replaced by an occurrence
* of {@code newChar}.
* <p>
@@ -2816,37 +2817,37 @@
public String toUpperCase() {
return toUpperCase(Locale.getDefault());
}
/**
- * Returns a copy of the string, with leading and trailing whitespace
- * omitted.
+ * Returns a string whose value is this string, with any leading and trailing
+ * whitespace removed.
* <p>
* If this {@code String} object represents an empty character
* sequence, or the first and last characters of character sequence
* represented by this {@code String} object both have codes
* greater than {@code '\u005Cu0020'} (the space character), then a
* reference to this {@code String} object is returned.
* <p>
* Otherwise, if there is no character with a code greater than
- * {@code '\u005Cu0020'} in the string, then a new
- * {@code String} object representing an empty string is created
- * and returned.
+ * {@code '\u005Cu0020'} in the string, then a
+ * {@code String} object representing an empty string is
+ * returned.
* <p>
* Otherwise, let <i>k</i> be the index of the first character in the
* string whose code is greater than {@code '\u005Cu0020'}, and let
* <i>m</i> be the index of the last character in the string whose code
- * is greater than {@code '\u005Cu0020'}. A new {@code String}
- * object is created, representing the substring of this string that
+ * is greater than {@code '\u005Cu0020'}. A {@code String}
+ * object is returned, representing the substring of this string that
* begins with the character at index <i>k</i> and ends with the
* character at index <i>m</i>-that is, the result of
* {@code this.substring(k, m + 1)}.
* <p>
* This method may be used to trim whitespace (as defined above) from
* the beginning and end of a string.
*
- * @return A copy of this string with leading and trailing white
+ * @return A string whose value is this string, with any leading and trailing white
* space removed, or this string if it has no leading or
* trailing white space.
*/
public String trim() {
int len = value.length;
@@ -2979,16 +2980,16 @@
}
/**
* Returns the string representation of the {@code char} array
* argument. The contents of the character array are copied; subsequent
- * modification of the character array does not affect the newly
- * created string.
+ * modification of the character array does not affect the returned
+ * string.
*
- * @param data a {@code char} array.
- * @return a newly allocated string representing the same sequence of
- * characters contained in the character array argument.
+ * @param data the character array.
+ * @return a {@code String} that contains the characters of the
+ * character array.
*/
public static String valueOf(char data[]) {
return new String(data);
}
@@ -2998,45 +2999,45 @@
* <p>
* The {@code offset} argument is the index of the first
* character of the subarray. The {@code count} argument
* specifies the length of the subarray. The contents of the subarray
* are copied; subsequent modification of the character array does not
- * affect the newly created string.
+ * affect the returned string.
*
* @param data the character array.
- * @param offset the initial offset into the value of the
- * {@code String}.
- * @param count the length of the value of the {@code String}.
- * @return a string representing the sequence of characters contained
- * in the subarray of the character array argument.
+ * @param offset initial offset of the subarray.
+ * @param count length of the subarray.
+ * @return a {@code String} that contains the characters of the
+ * specified subarray of the character array.
* @exception IndexOutOfBoundsException if {@code offset} is
* negative, or {@code count} is negative, or
* {@code offset+count} is larger than
* {@code data.length}.
*/
public static String valueOf(char data[], int offset, int count) {
return new String(data, offset, count);
}
/**
- * Returns a String that represents the character sequence in the
- * array specified.
+ * Identical to {@link #valueOf(char[], int, int)}.
*
* @param data the character array.
* @param offset initial offset of the subarray.
* @param count length of the subarray.
* @return a {@code String} that contains the characters of the
* specified subarray of the character array.
+ * @exception IndexOutOfBoundsException if {@code offset} is
+ * negative, or {@code count} is negative, or
+ * {@code offset+count} is larger than
+ * {@code data.length}.
*/
public static String copyValueOf(char data[], int offset, int count) {
- // All public String constructors now copy the data.
return new String(data, offset, count);
}
/**
- * Returns a String that represents the character sequence in the
- * array specified.
+ * Identical to {@link #valueOf(char[])}.
*
* @param data the character array.
* @return a {@code String} that contains the characters of the
* character array.
*/