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Strings in Java

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- [Instructor] So far, we've learned about a few data types. These data types, int, Boolean, double, char, were primitive types. These are great for storing a whole number, true/false values, a single letter or symbol, but what if you wanted to store and reference some text, something that requires more than just a single character? In this lesson, we'll be looking at the second overarching category of Java data types called reference types. And our first reference type is called a string. A string is a sequence of ordered characters. Before, we could represent a single character with a char, but now we can represent a word or a person's name with the string data type. To create a string, we surrounded the series of characters with quotation marks. This represents a string value. To create a string variable, we just state the data type string, give the variable a label, and then use the assignment operator to assign the variable the string value. We should also note that the order of…

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