Introduction

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There is only one primitive Java type for working with individual characters — the char type.

Examples of char values include:

• 'm'
• ' ' (space)
• '='
• '5'
• 'A'

An example of some code declaring and initialising a char variable is as follows:

char carYearLetter = 'A';

Notice the use of single quotation marks for char literal values. This becomes important when working with strings of characters that defined using double quotation marks.

A related concept to the char type, is that of the String class. The relationship between characters and strings is described in the next unit.

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