X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fanalysis%2FAlignSeq.java;h=7be4120e8ba7bc48f522c9d911aee84c3e1f1c13;hb=76389b07e78f92b6db0aeaf2f964d9dcb6671543;hp=60ad85c7a30678cb1e9faa98edadf007d5df0660;hpb=efc31b4a8d5cee63555586804a2b79c06bdb5a14;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java b/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java
index 60ad85c..7be4120 100755
--- a/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java
+++ b/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ public class AlignSeq
     public static String extractGaps(String gapChar, String seq)
     {
         StringTokenizer str = new StringTokenizer(seq, gapChar);
-        String newString = "";
+        String newString = new String();
 
         while (str.hasMoreTokens())
         {