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Escaping characters

Java Syntax, Level 3, Lesson 6

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can someone help me find out wat i did wrong

Display the following text (two lines):
This is a Windows path: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_172\bin" This is a Java string: \"C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_172\\bin\"

Hint:
\" – Escape sequence for double quote character.
\\ – Escape sequence for a backslash (\) character.

Requirements:

The program should output text.
Two lines must be displayed.
The first line of text should be: This is a Windows path: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_172\bin"
The second line of text should be: This is a Java string: \"C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_172\\bin\"

package com.codegym.task.task03.task0316; /* Escaping characters */ public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("This is a Windows path:" + "\c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_172\bin"); System.out.println("This is a Java string:" + "\"c:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_172\\bin\""); } }

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Jakub M

Level 32 , Ostrava, Czech Republic

7 June 2020, 19:35

Hi Andres, in order to get this backslash "\" you need to write this "\\" (please see Hint in the task). Same goes for the second line - in order to get "\\" you need to write this "\\\\". You should also consider spacing (before path) and disk "C" should be with uppercase. Wish you a nice day, Jakub

Andres

Level 4 , Reedley, United States

9 June 2020, 00:13

can you show an example

Jakub M

Level 32 , Ostrava, Czech Republic

9 June 2020, 17:24

Of course - but the best way is to find it out by yourself - it is much more better to try solve the task with IntelliJ (which was introduces in 3 lvl, lessons 1-2). In order to get this line (from task):

\"C:\\Program Files\\Java\

You should write:

\\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Java\\

But one more time - I would strongly recommend you to try those tasks in IntelliJ (or some other IDE) in order to see all the different results.