A string is a sequences of characters. In the case of the char, char contains a single character only.
A String can contain a sequence of characters.
Exmaple:
String name = "Rittwick Bhabak"
3 Strings in Java are Immutable
String name = "Rittwick";
String name = name + "Bhabak";
In the above code, name doesn't get appended the value "Bhabak" instead a new String is created which consists of the previous value of name plus "Bhabak".
The net result is same, name has the right values, however, a new String got created and the old one got discarded.
So, String is immutable in Java.
There are a class in Java called StringBuffer which can be changed.
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Actually, in most cases StringBuilder is more suitable as we rarely need to handle strings in a thread-safe manner.
Many blog articles deal with that topic.