How substring memory leak fixed in JDK 1.7?

Resolve the memory leak in JDK 1.7

substring() method implementation in JDK 1.6

Substring and original string represent the same Character array which leads to memory leak.

    public String substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) {

     //check boundary

return ((beginIndex == 0) && (endIndex == count))?this :

  new String(offset + beginIndex, endIndex - beginIndex, value);

    }

    String(int offset, int count, char value[]) {

this.value = value;

     this.offset = offset;

     this.count = count;

    }

substring() method implementation in JDK 1.7

This problem fixed in the JDK 1.7 by returning the new copy of character array.

    public String(charvalue[], int offset, int count) {

    //check boundary

     // It return new copy on array.

    this.value = Arrays.copyOfRange(value, offset, offset + count);

    }

    public String substring(intbeginIndex, int endIndex) {

    //check boundary

    intsubLen = endIndex - beginIndex;

    return new String(value, beginIndex, subLen);

    }