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Work with character values

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Work with character values

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- [Instructor] Java distinguishes between characters and strings. A character is a primitive data type and it consists of just a single character. A string is a complex object and can reference a complete collection of characters in a particular order. The primitive type is called char c-h-a-r and, just like any of the primitive types, it's spelled in all lowercase. I'll declare a variable of that type that I'll call c1. And I'll give it a literal value of the number one wrapped in single quotes. A literal for the character type is wrapped in single quotes while a literal for the string type is wrapped in double quotes. Now do the same thing for character two. I'll give it a value of two and then I'll create another one with the value of three. So those are three individual primitive values. There's another way of referencing a character and that's by its unicode value. To do this properly, you'll need a unicode chart. And here's one of many that are available on the web. When you're…

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