J2SE 5 provided significant new language features that made Java significantly easier to use and more expressive than it had ever been.

As strings (array of chars right?) need to have \0 at the end to signify the end of the string I add one to whatever the length of the string that I want to store is.

In Java an array is a way of storing multiple items of the same type. In this quick tutorial we introduce you to the very basics.