Hi,

I've built a structure where I initialise the string array with size 1 and expand it later on with append.

But at some point I need to reinitialize the string array as fresh, that means without any data and with initial length which is 1.

At the beginning of my class decleration, the array is initialised as:

String[] somestring = new String[1];

When I want to reinitialize the variable(as it will grow in length and I have conditions that looks for its length), I will just say:

somestring = new String[1];

is this good programming practise? When I say "new String[1]" to the same variable, will the previous be handled by the garbage collector? I mean the resource for it will be freed right?

Or is there any better way to reinitialize an array with arbitrary length to length = 1 with no contents in it?

Thanks