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Must be a String object not an array of String objects...

Posted by Kishori Sharan on December 22, 2000 at 9:27 AM

All arrays' componenets in java are initialized by default to null. You don't need to initialize them explicitly unless you want to initialize all componenets of newly created array to a value other than null ( for reference type array ) . The error you got must be becuase you are not initializing any String object not any string array. For example
String[] s = new String[3] ;

System.out.println ( s[0] ) ; and it will print "null" because all reference array ( here String one ) are initialized to null. It doesn't matter whether is declared as a memeber of a class or local to a method.
However, if you want to initailize the String array componenets to "" at runtime then you can do that as

// The array s has been created before this line of code
// but you don't know its actial length
for ( int i = 0 ; i < s.length ; i++ ) {
s[i] = "" ;
}

Thanx
Kishori