In kotlin how to create a String say “hello” twice...

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[Hassaan]

In kotlin how to create a String say “hello” twice in heap memory?
In java, we do this with the help of ‘new’ keyword : new String(“hello”)

[Joffrey]

The Kotlin equivalent of new String("hello") would be String("hello"), but I think Kotlin prevented this by not providing this constructor. Why would you want to do that, though?

[Sam]

If you want to call the Java constructor you could write

java.lang.String("hello") as String

But don’t 😄

[Joffrey]

You could also work around this by going through the byte array:

String("hello".encodeToByteArray())

But don't 😄

[Joffrey]

@Hassaan do you need this in real life, or were you just trying to construct an example to learn about reference equality vs value-based equality?

[Hassaan]

Learning purpose
I am noob would be better answer