String Escape Sequences.ppt

String Escape Sequences What if we wanted to print a double quote character? The following line would confuse the compiler because it would interpret the second quote as the end of the string System.out.println (I said Hello to you.); An escape sequence is a series of characters that represents a special character An escape sequence begins with a backslash character (\), which indicates that the character(s) that follow should be treated in a special way System.out.println (I said \Hello\ to you.); Escape Sequences Some Java escape sequences: More on String Objects Because strings are so common, we dont have to use the new operator to create a String object title = Java Software; which is a shorcut for: title = new String (Java Software“); This is special syntax that only works for strings Yet More on String Objects Every string literal, delimited by double quotation marks, also represents an implicit String object in Java A common service we want from string objects is to merge two strings, i.e., append one string to the end of another string One possibility to join “hello ” and “world” could be: “hello ”.join(“world”); To have a more natural expression, Java introduces the string concatenation operator (+): it is used to append one string to the end of another for example “hello “ + “world!” generates Primitive Data Types Strings are just one type of common objects we encounter and are treated specially by Java There are other basic (primitive) objects, such as integers etc Java predefines classes for such basic types for example, one predefined class is Integer: Primitive Data Types Although in pure object-oriented languages (such as Smalltalk and Ruby), we can consider everything as objects and defines everything as class, for efficiency, Java treats common objects such as numbers, characters, and logical values specially, and introduces them into the language as primitive data types Note: this division between primitive types and objects is