Creating a String from an array of characters.

Question

Hi,
i'm trying to make a string from an array of characters, this i've managed:
char data[] = new char[x];
String str = new String(data);My problem is this: Let's say the array of characters has space for 10 chars, but i only input 5, when i convert it to a string, the 5 characters show up fine, but the last remaining characters show up as little boxes ( [] [] [] [] [] ) .
It there a way to remove these?
Thanks in advance
Mike

Answer 1

jverd wrote:
georgemc wrote:
String str = new String(data).trim();
Does the null character count as whitespace?Seems to. Actually, I'm getting different results depending on the compiler used.
public static void main(String[] args) {
          char[] c = new char[10];
          for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
               c[i] = (char) ('a' + i);
          String first = new String(c);
          System.err.println("[" + first  + "]");
          System.err.println(first.length());
          String second = new String(c).trim();
          System.err.println("[" + second  + "]");
          System.err.println(second.length());
     }ECJ-compiled output:
>
[abcde
10
[abcde]
5
>
javac-compiled output:
>
[abcde]
10
[abcde]
5
>
Odd