Hi Folks,

Could you all please let me know why, the contents of stringbuffer "S1"  printed
in line 3 (//3)and line 4(//4) are not same, even though the s2 has been
assigned to s1 in line 2.
I am a bit confused with this "parsing of strings/stringbuffers" , could you
please explain me.

And how come, the value assigned to S1 in "line 2" is not going to "line 4"

Thanks a lot.

class TestBuffer {

     public void myBuf( StringBuffer s1, StringBuffer s2) {
            s1.append(" how are you") ;  // 1
            s1 = s2;  // 2
            System.out.println("Inside myBuf method: " + s1);  //3
     }

     public static void main ( String args[] ) {
             TestBuffer tb = new TestBuffer();
              StringBuffer s1 = new StringBuffer("Hello");
              StringBuffer s2 = new StringBuffer("doing");
              tb.myBuf(s1, s2);
              System.out.print(s1); //4
      }
}




Best Regards & Good Luck



Chooti Baba




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