StringBuilder is the mutable counterpart to String. It holds a resizable sequence of characters, and its methods change that sequence in place instead of creating new objects. Use it when you build text in a loop, because repeated String concatenation creates a new object on every step. (StringBuffer has the same methods but is synchronized; StringBuilder is the usual choice.)
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