char literal

[venkataraman muthuvel]

This is my question
class test {
public static void main (String[] args) {
char a = 061; // 1
char b = '\377'; // 2
System.out.print(""+a+b);
}}

this compiled fine but i will declar like that char b = '\378' it would not compile.

char b='\0' to char b='\377' this range work fine but after '\377' is not compile, Any body know help me

[Chris Allen]

The value 378 is invalid when you are using the octal base. You can only have digits 0 through 7.

[venkataraman muthuvel]

hi Chris Allen

Thanks for ur help

bye

[Sanyev Babu]

You must reffer the JLS It clearly says that after \ you can have a maximum of 3 digits (all octal) the first digit can be only 0,1,2,3. So the maximum number possible is 377. Anything more than that is not possible. 377 is equivalent to 255 in decimal. only \u0000 to \u00FF is possible as octal.

Sanyev

The character and string escape sequences allow for the representation of some nongraphic characters as well as the single quote, double quote, and backslash characters in character literals (�3.10.4) and string literals (�3.10.5).

EscapeSequence:
\ b/* \u0008: backspace BS */
\ t/* \u0009: horizontal tab HT */
\ n/* \u000a: linefeed LF */
\ f/* \u000c: form feed FF */
\ r/* \u000d: carriage return CR */
\ "/* \u0022: double quote " */
\ '/* \u0027: single quote ' */
\ \/* \u005c: backslash \ */
OctalEscape/* \u0000 to \u00ff: from octal value */

OctalEscape:
\ OctalDigit
\ OctalDigit OctalDigit
\ ZeroToThree OctalDigit OctalDigit

OctalDigit: one of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

ZeroToThree: one of
0 1 2 3

It is a compile-time error if the character following a backslash in an escape is not an ASCII b, t, n, f, r, ", ', \, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7. The Unicode escape \u is processed earlier (�3.3). (Octal escapes are provided for compatibility with C, but can express only Unicode values \u0000 through \u00FF, so Unicode escapes are usually preferred.)