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Using Special Characters in Strings 67

You can use System.out.print()several times in a row to display several
things on the same line, as in this example:

System.out.print(“She “);
System.out.print(“never “);
System.out.print(“said “);
System.out.print(“another “);
System.out.println(“word.”);

These statements cause the following text to be displayed:

She never said another word.

Using Special Characters in Strings

When a string is being created or displayed, its text must be enclosed with-
in double quotation marks. These quotation marks are not displayed,
which brings up a good question: What if you want to display double
quotation marks?

To display them, Java has created a special code that can be put into a
string: \”. Whenever this code is encountered in a string, it is replaced with
a double quotation mark. For example, examine the following:

System.out.println(“Jane Campion directed \”The Piano\” in 1993.”);

This code is displayed as the following:

Jane Campion directed “The Piano” in 1993.

You can insert several special characters into a string in this manner. The
following list shows these special characters; note that each is preceded by
a backslash ().

Special Characters Display

\’ Single quotation mark

\” Double quotation mark

\ Backslash

\t Ta b

\b Backspace

\r Carriage return

\f Formfeed

\n Newline