What's wrong with this program using escape characters?

[dunboody]

I keep getting "unclosed character literal" errors.

public class Wonderland {

private static final char HOOPLA = 'y';
public static void main (String[] args) {

System.out.println(HOOPLA + '/n' + HOOPLA + '/t' + HOOPLA + HOOPLA + '//' + '/'' + HOOPLA + '/b');
}
}

[JosAH]

The escape character is the backslash \ not the forward slash /

kind regards,

Jos

[dunboody]

Gracias. Works fine, now. Although the backspace one '\b' isn't doing anything.

[JosAH]

Gracias. Works fine, now. Although the backspace one '\b' isn't doing anything.

How do you know? You didn't write something else following that \b ...

kind regards,

Jos

[dunboody]

Yeah, I added some stuff after the backspace, and then it worked. So I suppose you can't use '\b' unless you have stuff written after it.

[JosAH]

Yeah, I added some stuff after the backspace, and then it worked. So I suppose you can't use '\b' unless you have stuff written after it.

Nope, that's not it; a backspace character doesn't delete a previous character, it just moves the cursor to a previous position (on most terminals).

kind regards,

Jos