Assigning values in StringBuilder array using {}

Question

I can't do this:

StringBuilder[] textArray = new StringBuilder("Word1", "Word2", "Word3", "e.t.c");

Do I do it wrong? Or is it just not possible? Are there better ways?

Answer 1

This is a link to StringBuilder javadoc

As you can see there is no constructor with a vararg parameter which can accept any number of strings. You can pass only one string to the constructor. But the following example may be what you want:

new StringBuilder("one string").append("second string").append("third")

but this example will create one string builder. If you want to create one StringBuilder for every string, you can use streams.

        Arrays.stream(new String[]{"one", "second", "third"})
            .map(st -> new StringBuilder(st))
            .toArray();

But this can be to match for smbd who has just started to learn Java.