Why this java code has written this way?

[talenone]

Can someone tell me about this style of writing in java?

        
	private static final String[] NORM_STRINGS = new String['z' - 'a' + 1];
	{
		COLLATOR.setStrength(Collator.PRIMARY);
		for (char b = 'a'; b <= 'z'; b++)
		{
			NORM_STRINGS[b - 'a'] = new String(new char[]
			{ b });
		}
	}

[DarrylBurke]

What about it?

db

[talenone]

I'm trying to understand the way syntax has been written; the block of code in braces soon after the declaration seems like method, isn't it?

[Sierra]

Well it is not a good or nice code style. It is probably written like that to confuse someone intentionally.

[talenone]

My question is how the Java compiler interpret this code?

[Sierra]

It depends on what is enclosing all this... it is not the whole code, so we cannot tell you that.

The first line is a declaration so the assumption is that this level is inside a class declaration.
Then follows a code block which is executed as is at the beginning straight away as far as I know it.

[viren2727in]

its simple code just replace 'a' and 'z' with its ascii value. and you will get answer. :)

[JosAH]

        
			NORM_STRINGS[b - 'a'] = new String(new char[] { b });

I would've written the above snippet as:

        
			NORM_STRINGS[b - 'a'] = new String.valueOf(b);

I don't know if it matters much but the original version allocates two objects (a char array and a String) and I hope those Sun folks were a bit more clever ...

kind regards,

Jos