Java is the future !: char a = '\u000A'. Why is this invalid?

Saturday, May 14, 2011

char a = '\u000A'. Why is this invalid?


Unicode escape characters of the form '\Uxxxx', where xxxx is a hexadecimal value, are processed very early in the translation process (see JLS 3.10.4 ). As a result, the special characters '0A' (line feed) and '0D' (carriage return) are interpreted literally as "end of line."
For example, the expression...

char A = '\u000A';
...therefore becomes...

char A =;
...which results in a compile-time error.
To avoid this error, always use the special escape characters '\n' (line feed) and '\r' (carriage return).

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