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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java IO

ensure you putt the formater '%s'. where can i put this in java string code

can anyone tell me ??

IO.java
// I have imported java.io.Console for you.  It is a variable called console.
String firstName = console.readLine("first name");
String lastName = console.readLine("last name");
console.printf("First Name:");

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi ,

Like in many other languages formatters share a common practice which involves using special placeholders such as %s which denotes a string or %f which denotes a floating point value, for this challenge we simply need to pass firstName as an argument and use %s to include the value as part of the string.

What you should up with is the following.

console.printf("First Name: %s", firstName);

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