What is the purpose of the expression “new String(…)” in Java?

Question

While looking at online code samples, I have sometimes come across an assignment of a String constant to a String object via the use of the new operator.

For example

Answer 1

There are two ways in which Strings can be created in Java. Following are the examples for both the ways: 1) Declare a variable of type String(a class in Java) and assign it to a value which should be put between double quotes. This will create a string in the string pool area of memory. eg: String str = "JAVA";

2)Use the constructor of String class and pass a string(within double quotes) as an argument. eg: String s = new String("JAVA"); This will create a new string JAVA in the main memory and also in the string pool if this string is not already present in string pool.