Node with String Pointer

Here is another node type:

public class StringNode
{
  private String  value;
  private StringNode next;
  
  public StringNode ( String word )
  {
    value = word;  // pointer to a String
    next = null;   // pointer to a StringNode
  }
 
  public String getValue() { return value; }
  public StringNode getNext()  { return next; }
  
  public void setValue( String val ) { value = val; }
  public void setNext( StringNode nxt ) { next = nxt; } 
  
  public String toString() { return value ; }
}

A StringNode contains a reference to a String, and a reference to the next node. Here is how a StringNode looks when it is part of a linked list. There are two objects in the picture: the StringNode and the String it points to.

Here is a short program:

public class StringNodeTester
{
  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    StringNode node0 = new StringNode( "ant" ); 
    System.out.println("Node 0: " + node0 );
  }
}

Here is what this short program creates:

The constructor for the Node initializes the next member to null and copies a pointer to a String into value .