Is concatenating with an empty string to do a string conversion really that bad?

Question

Let\'s say I have two char variables, and later on I want to concatenate them into a string. This is how I would do it:

char c1, c2;
// ...

Str         


        

Answer 1

What about

new String(new char[] {a, b})

and if you do it alot you could create a class "Strings" with:

public static String valueOf(char... chars) {
    return new String(chars);
}

Your line would then read

String s = Strings.valueOf(a, b);

Nice and short.

Edited

A better name might be:

String s = Chars.asString(a, b);