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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java Strings and Variables

David Richard
David Richard
4,879 Points
Posted by David Richard
David Richard
4,879 Points

Output shows error of "illegal character" but can't figure out why

treehouse:~/workspace$ javac introductions.java
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m
introductions.java:8: error: illegal character: '' console.printf("Hello, my name is Craig");
^
1 error

2 Answers

David Richard
David Richard
4,879 Points
David Richard
David Richard
4,879 Points

Actually i figured it out. Somehow there was an extra ' written into the code. I could barely notice it which is what originally threw me off. Regardless to all that, really appreciate you responding.

Alex Life
Alex Life
16,114 Points
Alex Life
Alex Life
16,114 Points

Could be the type of quote symbols being used. Other than that, I don't think there is enough info to go off of if that's not the problem.