Difference between Strings and Character Literals

Is a string consisting of a single character the same as a character literal? For example, is "k" the same as 'k'?

Character Literal:

• Represents a single letter.
• Char type.
• Example: 'k'.

Single Character String:

• Contains only one letter, but is still a string.
• String type.

Example: "k".

• Summary
• 'k' (character literal) and "k" (single character string) are not the same thing.
• A character literal is of type char, while a string is of type String.
• Strings, even when they contain only one character, are different from character literals.

Notice how the n escape sequence is used to generate a new line.
You don't need to use multiple println( ) statements to get multiline output. Just embed n in a longer string at the points where you want the newline to occur.

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