Re: very new to java

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porky008 schreef:
i am very new as you can see. what am i doing wrong here. any help
would nice

public class Welcome
{
// main method begins execution of Java application
public static void main( String args[] )
{
System.out.printf( %s \n%s \n,
"Hi, my name is xxx.", "I was born in xxx.");

} // end method main

} // end class Welcome

The simple answer: you are missing quotes around your string:

System.out.printf( "%s \n%s \n","Hi, my name is xxx.",
"I was born in xxx.");

The long answer: usually, you want the string argument to contain all
the text, with gaps for where the other stuff should come, and then
provide the other stuff.

System.out.printf("Hi, my name is %s%n, I was born in %s.%n", name,
birthPlace);

where name and birthPlace are variables pointing to your name and birth
place, respectively.

Note the use of %n instead of \n. %n is platform independent.

H.
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Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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