Actually a class called a SymbolTokenizer governs the transition from
Symbols to Strings. The String is assembled in a StringBuffer but
ultimately a new String is created with each call to seqString().
The method seqString() is really only meant for displaying the sequence in
a readable way to STDOUT or similar. It shouldn't be used in algorithms or
general programing.
- Mark
"Richard HOLLAND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
08/06/2005 12:49 PM
To: "Felipe Albrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <biojava-l@biojava.org>
cc: (bcc: Mark Schreiber/GP/Novartis)
Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] Sequence and String
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
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Felipe
Albrecht
Sent: Sat 8/6/2005 5:05 AM
To: biojava-l@biojava.org
Cc:
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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