system.out.print vs println

[Brandi Love]

What is the difference between the print and println commands?

[S. Stacey]

System.out.println will print on a new line where System.out.print will print and the same line.

[Jeff Bosch]

System.out.println will print on a new line where System.out.print will print and the same line.

Println() won't print on a new line, it will terminate the current line with a newline character or sequence. In other words, println() will print an end-of-line character, while print() will not. If you invoke println() after a print(), the argument to println() will append to the argument to print(). Here's an example:

String firstName = "Jeff ",
       lastName = "Bosch";
System.out.print( firstName );
System.out.println( lastName );

Running this snippet in a program produces Jeff Bosch on one line, then places the cursor at the beginning of the next line.