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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java Strings, Variables, and Formatting

Hasan Raza
Hasan Raza
43 Points
Posted by Hasan Raza
Hasan Raza
43 Points

how to print a line

Instead of using System.out.println in Dr. Java

Name.java 
public class Variables 
  public static void main(String[] args) {

  String firstName = "Hasan Raza";
  System.out.println ("My name is" +firstName);






}
}
Dana Urrey
Dana Urrey
1,575 Points
Dana Urrey
Dana Urrey
1,575 Points

I think your looking for is a newline (\n) so it goes something like this (I'm only showing the string part of the code, nothing else)

String mySavedString = "Something";
System.out.printf("\nI want %s to print.\n", mySavedString);
System.out.println("\nI want to print " +mySavedString);

newlines can be put anywhere in a string as long as your using \ and not / my results for the string part looked like this after I ran my code. 

I want Something to print.

I want to print Something

Hope that's what you were looking for :)

1 Answer

Andrew Dummer
Andrew Dummer
6,885 Points
Andrew Dummer
Andrew Dummer
6,885 Points

Try printf("\n"); to create a blank newline, and you can add in string input if you'd like, such as printf("Here comes a new line \n there it was");