In java String Builder Should be Used in case you need to perform concatenate more string together.
i.e
public String toString()
{
return a + b + c ;
}
For the above code using + will be converted to
a = new StringBuilder()
.append(a).append(b).append(c)
.toString();
For the above case you can use concat as below but since + will be converted as String Builder its better to use + rather than concat.
public String toString()
{
return a.concat(b).concat(c);
}
The key is whether you are writing a single concatenation all in one place or accumulating it over time.
There's no point in explicitly using StringBuilder.
But if you are building a string e.g. inside a loop, use StringBuilder.
To clarify, assuming that hugeArray contains thousands of strings, code like this:
...
String result = "";
for (String s : hugeArray) {
result = result + s;
}
It should be as below
...
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (String s : hugeArray) {
sb.append(s);
}
String result = sb.toString();