how to print "" as string

[Gajendra Kangokar]

Hi
How to print this "" as output?

String a ="""";//compiler error
String b = new String("""");//compiler error

Is it possible?
Thank You

[fred rosenberger]

Do you know how to print a single double-quote character?

The solution is that you have to escape certain "special characters" - the quote is one. so inside a pair of quote, you use a back-slash to tell Java (and many other languages) "treat the next character different than normal".

So a single double-quote character could be printed like this:

String a ="\"";

Now try and extend that to print two double quotes.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

To continue from what Fred told you, the Java® Tutorials and the Java® Language Specification (=JLS) have lists of escape sequences. I think you should avoid octal escapes; use Unicode instead.
I think you can put single quotes ' in String literals and double quotes " in char literals without escapes.

[Jesper de Jong]

Unicode escapes are not going to work for this. Unicode escapes are processed before the code is parsed, so writing quotes using Unicode escapes is exactly the same as writing the quotes directly, as far as the compiler is concerned.

// This will give you exactly the same compile error...
String a = "\u0022\u0022";

// ... as this
String a = """";

[Campbell Ritchie]

I meant to say use Unicode instead of octal. But you are quite right, Jesper, that you cannot use Unicode escapes instead of \' \" \b \f \n \r \t or \\.

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[Tim Holloway]

final char QUOTE = '"';
final char NEWLINE '\n';

System.out.print(QUOTE + "Hello, World!" + QUOTE + NEWLINE);

Yes, I know "println" does an OS-independent newline, but I'm grandstanding here.

Most languages handle syntactical ambiguities in one of 2 ways, there either double-up or they use an escape character.

SQL and BASIC double up : 'O''Brian'.

C/C++/Java/Perl and others use an escape character 'O\'Brian'. Raw character codes are generally an option, too. Usually an escaped escape character doubles up, but I think if I tried I could come up with a language or 2 that did that trick differently.

[Balabo Haeron]

Define a character in unicode to denote the expression and then use it within context in your println command.

i.e.

char c = '\u0093';
System.out.println(c+""+c);

[Campbell Ritchie]

What is \u0093 supposed to mean? It is not a printing character.