trivial change ("" to new String() in static method)

diff --git a/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java b/src/jalview/analysis/AlignSeq.java
index 60ad85c..7be4120 100755 (executable)
--- 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)\r
     {\r
         StringTokenizer str = new StringTokenizer(seq, gapChar);\r
-        String newString = "";\r
+        String newString = new String();\r
 \r
         while (str.hasMoreTokens())\r
         {\r