Hi .
I could not understand difference between private and static member in classes.
The code within class has direct access to objects in both of them.
So the difference is : when you use static member, you don't need to instantiate an object. is it right ?

Thank u.

Suppose you have a class named clsPerson with a private member named Age. if you write code that creates 100 clsPerson objects, you will get 100 private members named Age.

Now suppose that class has a variable defined as:

static String days[]={"Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat","Sun"};

Because you used the keyword static the compiler does two important things:

1) Immediately at program start, it creates the days[] array, even if you have not defined a clsPerson yet.
2) It will never create another days[] array regardless of how many other new clsPerson objects you define.

This means that every clsPerson object shares the same days[] array...it is never reassigned. Therefore, anytime you have data that likely won't change during program execution, making it a static can save code space by not duplicating the data. It should also be obvious that static data within methods retains its values between calls to the method.

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Hi.
Thank you so much .
Before your explanation i hadn't got the differences .