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From: markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam>
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Subject: Re: Substring changes (JDK 1.7)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:36:40 -0800
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On 1/12/2013 10:14 AM, Jan Burse wrote:
> markspace schrieb:
>> javax.swing.text.Segment preserves the semantics of a shared buffer.
>> It's not a drop-in replacement for String (many of the methods differ or
>> are absent). But Segment is extensible, so critical missing methods
>> could be added.
>
> Not available on Android I guess, :-(


Or you could just write your own from scratch.  It's not hard.  But 
again I kind of doubt anyone is doing enough heavy string processing on 
a small embedded device like Android where this kind of thing is going 
to affect actual performance.

Didn't your original complaint come from the Scala group?  What does 
Scala have to do with Android?