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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) { //write your code here 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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143_Ritik Awachat

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22 September 2020, 05:16

thanx man

horst

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21 September 2020, 17:30

solution

The whole deal with escaping characters is the following: Sometimes you want to print a character that also has a special meaning in Java syntax and therefore you somehow have to label this character in a way that the compiler does not interpret it as Java-syntax, but as a "normal" character. For example, the double quotation mark " is used to mark the beginning and the end of a String. If you actually want to print the quotation mark itself you have to put a backslash \ in front of it to mark it as a "regular" quotation mark and not the end of the String you want to print. With this in mind, have a look at your line 11 again: At the moment, your String closes right before C: and everything after that is some weird nonsense from the compiler's point of view. PS: Since the backslash is in itself a special character AND the escape character, the way you have to print the second String is going to get very nasty. Just think it through: If you want to print one backslash, you will have to escape it with another backslash right in front of it, if you want to print two backslashes...