how to listen for char ' and "?

[john price]

The code works 100% fine this way...KeyCar1 = char, beck and heck are ints:

if ((KeyCar1 == 'l') || (KeyCar1 == 'L')) {
	beck += 3;
	heck += 3;
	}

if i try:

if ((KeyChar1 == ''') || (KeyCar1 == '"')) {
beck += 4;
heck += 4;
}

i get errors..i have tried various way to do this...should i use:

case KeyEvent.....

or stick with the char?
Please give examples that directly relate to my code.
Thanks,
cc11rocks

[Stephan van Hulst]

If you want to use the " and ' characters in a Java string or character literal, you will have to escape them. Example:

'\''

[john price]

Thank you very much!
It worked,
cc11rocks

[Rob Spoor]

You can use ' inside Strings and " inside chars without escaping:

String s = "'";
char c = '"';

' inside chars and " inside Strings need to be escaped as Stephan explained.