What's wrong with this program using escape characters?

**dunboody** · 10-09-2011, 08:02 AM

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** · 10-09-2011, 08:26 AM

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

kind regards,

Jos

**dunboody** · 10-09-2011, 09:15 PM

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

**JosAH** · 10-09-2011, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by dunboody

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** · 10-09-2011, 09:22 PM

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** · 10-09-2011, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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