I am trying to reuse an array where eventually I am going to put AIX commands but I get compile errors when I try to reuse it. I am a newborn to Java. I don't want to enter the elements on an item by item basis and would rather not create a seperate array.

Excerpt

     // Create an Initial version of Command Array
     String[] command = { "a", "b", "c"};

     // Now try to reuse it to store new values. This is wrong
     command = {"d", "e", "f"};


Full Code is below..

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class arrays
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  try{

     // Create an Initial version of Command Array
     String[] command = { "a", "b", "c"};

     // Now try to reuse it to store new values. This is wrong
     command = {"d", "e", "f"};
    }
    catch( Exception e )
     { e.printStackTrace(); }
 }
}

Upon Trying to compile this I get the following Error Message:

arrays.java:18: illegal start of expression
     command = {"d", "e", "f"};
               ^

String[] command = { "a", "b", "c"};with this u have created an array of Strings
command[0] points to String instance "a"
command[1] ------>"b"
command[2] ------>"c"
command[3] ------>"d"

unlike in c/c++, in java there is no such pointer which points to the starting element in the array.
that's why we are not able to assign the one more arry to that
but it's valid in c/c++.

because of its an array of instances u can give the String variables at the time of initialisation only.able to modify the existing String