What is difference between string and string literal?

Answer 1

A "string literal" is a sequence of characters from the source character set enclosed in double quotation marks (" "). String literals are used to represent a sequence of characters which, taken together, form a null-terminated string.
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Answer 2

n java, String can be initialized as Literal or Object.

String Literal

String a = “ABC”;

In this case a String is created in String pool. Now if I initialize

String b = “ABC”;

And put if condition - if (a==b) this would return true as both a and b point to one literal in pool

String object

String a = new String (“a”);

String b = new String(“a”);

If (a==b) returns false in this case as the references point to different objects and (a.equals (b)) returns true.

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