Is there any benefit to returning the result of assigning a value to a local variable rather than the value directly?

Question

I am doing a java code inspection. Here is a function (snippet):

String getValue() {
     String res;
     StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();

         


        

Answer 1

You're absolutely right; assignment to res makes no sense; return bs.toString(); would do the the same.

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P.S. +1 for not ignoring compiler warnings.