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Thread: Can a null value be concatenated with an existing String? Exemple:

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    Default Can a null value be concatenated with an existing String? Exemple:

    static public String populateVehicleDetails(Vehicle vehicle){
        String returnString = new String()
        String existingString = "Chevy Uplander "
        String nl = "\n"
     
        returnString.concat(existingString+nl).
            concat("Color: "+ vehicle.color + nl)
     
        return returnString
    }

    In the case that vehicle.color is null what will happens? A null pointer error?
    null will be concatenated to the string in vehicle.color place? or will not concatenate anything in the place of vehicle.color
    I'm asking that because I do not know if I have to check for null in each property of vehicle that I must concatenate (there are a lot of properties in the Vehicle object and some may not been set (they will return null).


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    Default Re: Can a null value be concatenated with an existing String? Exemple:

    Quote Originally Posted by javaDruide View Post
    In the case that vehicle.color is null what will happens? A null pointer error?
    No, the string concatenation with + adds a "null" string.
    In other words the returned string is equivalent to:

    "Chevy Uplander \nColor: null\n"

    Note 1: using a bare \n is not a good thing. The newline sequence depends on the platform/operating system.

    Note 2: you could also simply do:

    String nl = "\n";
    return "Chevy Uplander " + nl + "Color: " + vehicle.color + nl;

    Note 3: in your code you are missing many ';'.
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