public class

StringInterner

extends Object
package org.apache.lucene.util;
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/**
 * Subclasses of StringInterner are required to
 * return the same single String object for all equal strings.
 * Depending on the implementation, this may not be
 * the same object returned as String.intern().
 *
 * This StringInterner base class simply delegates to String.intern().
 */
public class StringInterner {
  /** Returns a single object instance for each equal string. */
  public String intern(String s) {
    return s.intern();
  }

  /** Returns a single object instance for each equal string. */
  public String intern(char[] arr, int offset, int len) {
    return intern(new String(arr, offset, len));
  }
}