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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Current Progress

Chris Rubio
Chris Rubio
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Posted by Chris Rubio
Chris Rubio
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question ...ok on the video CURRENT PROGRESS min 4:48 --he said String progress = ""; could he have done = null instead

question ...ok on the video CURRENT PROGRESS min 4:48 --he said String progress = ""; could he have done = null instead of the quotations ?

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Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
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Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

No, because later in the method he starts concatenating values to the progress string and needed a blank starting point. An empty string is still a string, that is an instance of the String class, even if it doesn't have any characters assigned to it yet.

Null on the other hand is not, and if you try to concatenate to it, it will first convert that null to the word "null". When I tested in JShell I got this:

String a = null;
a += "test";
// resulting value of a was "nulltest"