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Subject: Re: Substring changes (JDK 1.7)
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On 1/10/2013 5:38 AM, Jan Burse wrote:
> 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


Wrong on both counts.  Where did you read this nonsense?

<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7-gate/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/java/lang/String.java>