Character Data Type

Introduction

The character data type char, is used to represent a single character. A character literal is enclosed in single quotation marks.

The following statement assigns character 'A' to the char variable letter.

char letter = 'A';

And the following statement assigns the digit character 4 to the char variable numChar.

char numChar = '4';

Escape Sequence for Special Characters

Java defines escape sequences to represent special characters as in the following table.

Exercise:

What is the output of the following statement?

System.out.println("He said \"Java is fun\"");