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68 Chapter 2 Elementary Programming
2.31 Show the output of the following program:
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
char x = 'a';
char y = 'c';
}
}
System.out.println(++x);
System.out.println(y++);
System.out.println(x - y);
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Point
2.18 The String Type
A string is a sequence of characters.
The char type represents only one character. To represent a string of characters, use the data
type called String. For example, the following code declares the message to be a string with
the value "Welcome to Java".
String message = "Welcome to Java";
concatenate strings and
numbers
String is a predefined class in the Java library, just like the classes System, JOptionPane,
and Scanner. The String type is not a primitive type. It is known as a reference type. Any Java
class can be used as a reference type for a variable. Reference data types will be thoroughly discussed
in Chapter 8, Objects and Classes. For the time being, you need to know only how to
declare a String variable, how to assign a string to the variable, and how to concatenate strings.
As first shown in Listing 2.1, two strings can be concatenated. The plus sign (+) is the concatenation
operator if one of the operands is a string. If one of the operands is a nonstring
(e.g., a number), the nonstring value is converted into a string and concatenated with the other
string. Here are some examples:
// Three strings are concatenated
String message = "Welcome " + "to " + "Java";
// String Chapter is concatenated with number 2
String s = "Chapter" + 2; // s becomes Chapter2
// String Supplement is concatenated with character B
String s1 = "Supplement" + 'B'; // s1 becomes SupplementB
If neither of the operands is a string, the plus sign (+) is the addition operator that adds
two numbers.
The augmented += operator can also be used for string concatenation. For example, the following
code appends the string "and Java is fun" with the string "Welcome to Java" in
message.
message += " and Java is fun";
So the new message is "Welcome to Java and Java is fun".
If i = 1 and j = 2, what is the output of the following statement?
System.out.println("i + j is " + i + j);
The output is "i + j is 12" because "i + j is " is concatenated with the value of
i first. To force i + j to be executed first, enclose i + j in the parentheses, as follows:
System.out.println("i + j is " + ( i + j ));