Question

This is baffling me. I am grabbing a String and converting it to a Char array but the resulting characters are not the same as the original String. What gives? I’ve tried it one character at a time as well as trying toCharArray(). Same results.

Output:

07-21 09:58:27.700: V/meh(22907): Loaded String = [C@42126d88

07-21 09:58:27.700: V/meh(22907): Convert to Char = [C@41693070

String temp = prefManager_.getString("PrevGameState", "");
Log.v("meh", "Loaded String = " + temp);

pieceStates_ = temp.toCharArray();
Log.v("meh", "Convert to Char = " + pieceStates_.toString());

Answer 1

Use :

System.out.println(“Convert to Char = ” + String.valueOf(pieceStates_) );

String.valueOf(Character_Array)

Above method converts it back to String object.