Confusion in \uxxxx !!!

[tanu dua]

Hi all !

I was doing Dan Chislom Language Fundamentals Exam 2 when i encountered the following problem. Please help me out.

  
class MCZ17 {
  public static void main (String[] args) {
    String a = "\n";      // 1
   String b="\u000a"      //2
   System.out.println(a);
   System.out.println(b);
}}

Output:

Compile Error at 2 Details of error :Unclosed String literal.

Problem :

Why there is a compile error even though \u000a represents \n.

Thanx

[JiaYun Jia]

There's a faq on this at jGuru

http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=225894

[Tybon Wu]

Because unicode characters are translated before compile. So basically the code gets translated to the following before it's compiled:

class MCZ17 {
  public static void main (String[] args) {
   String a = "\n";      // 1
   String b="
"      //2
   System.out.println(a);
   System.out.println(b);}}

As you can see, /u000a is literally translated in to a new line in the source code.

[Ganesh Prakhya]

hi

actually i think you forgot to include a semi colon in line 2 of your code.
just behind assignment of unicode character. i think this is your reason for
your compiler error.

tnx

[tanu dua]

Thanx for all ur replies ,my doubts are cleared .. Thanx

[Sanyev Babu]

All see this thread