String s = new String(“xyz”). How many objects has been made after this line of code execute?

Question

The commonly agreed answer to this interview question is that two objects are created by the code. But I don\'t think so; I wrote some code to confirm.

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Answer 1

Just because all your hash codes are the same does not mean that you are looking at the same object. Two objects are created. Let's break this down.

String s = new String(“xyz”);

In the part ' new String("xyz") ', an address is returned to the new string "xyz". When you say ' String s = ', this assigns that returned address to this object, so that they point to the same place, but the new string and string s are two seperate objects.