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4 string variable concatenation

 
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hello,

I am trying to concatenate 4 strings together to later be able to make them all upper case, or lower case or get the length. I keep getting an error on line 16.

anyone able to help me out?

 
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Adrian,
The issue is in these three lines:



Java is smart enough to realize that msg1, msg2, msg3 and msg4 have not been assigned values. So when you try to concatenate them, Java calls foul. It doesn't make sense to concatenate non-values.

 
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How do i assign them a value when the input will come from the user?
 
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You are assigning them values in your code, just later. So move the concatenation statement to after that happens. Remember that the program will do things when you tell it to. Literally.
 
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omg that worked just by moving that section lower.

thank you,

next question though, how do you i make it give spaces between the variables? they continue typingoutlikethis
 
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Here's an example. You add an empty string to the list of things you are concatenating:
msg1 + " " + msg2
 
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that worked great,

thank you
 
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Technically, " " is not an empty string; it's a string with one character that happens to be a space. An empty string has no characters and is represented by "" (nothing between the two quotes).
 
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Junilu Lacar wrote:Technically, " " is not an empty string; it's a string with one character that happens to be a space. An empty string has no characters and is represented by "" (nothing between the two quotes).


Agreed. Thank you for correcting that.
 
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I changed the thread title because “4 strong variable concatenation” looked very interesting, but was probably not what you wanted to say!

Have you ever tried the String#format method?Since Strings are immutable, text1 text2 etc remain unchanged.
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:


OMG, is your other self suicidal?
 
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No, but I have to keep a low profile sometimes
 
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