[Biojava-l] Sequence and String

[Richard HOLLAND]

Internally the Sequence is stored not as a String but as an array of Symbol objects. Hence when you call seqString(), a new String is generated every time by appending the results of calling toString() on every Symbol object in the internal array.

cheers,
Richard


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From:	biojava-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org on behalf of Felipe Albrecht
Sent:	Sat 8/6/2005 5:05 AM
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Subject:	[Biojava-l] Sequence and String
Hello,

When I do "sequence.seqString()" ,  [sequence as a instance of SimpleSequence]
I catch a _new_ String representing the sequence or a _reference_ for
the String in my Sequence class?

Its is important for me, because if a have a greate sequence, I will
waste memory copying then when a need take your String representation.


Thanks.


Felipe Albrecht

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