Java Programming for Beginners

Escape sequences

If you spend a lot of time working with strings though, I anticipate that you're going to run into a common problem. Let's take a look at it quickly. I'm just going to write a brand new program here. I'm going to declare a string, then I'm going to have our program print the string to the screen. But the value I'm going to assign to this string is going to be a little tricky. I'd like our program to print out The program says: "Hello World" (I'd like Hello World to be surrounded by double quotation marks):

The problem here is that putting double quotation marks inside a string literal confuses Java as shown in the preceding ...