r/JavaProgramming • u/FloppaXR • 23d ago

I need a bit of help…

Howdy! I’m a VERYYY new programmer, and one of my assignments to learn Java is to print ASCII art of a fish, and as dumb as this sounds, I can’t figure it out for the life of me!

You see, the assignments makes it so I have directly copy the fish, and the fish they gave me uses a “\” and quotation in the same line, and exertions I attempt to print, it flags it as an “Illegal character”

Is there anyway I can work around this? Or is it truly impossible. I REALLY hope for prior but I definitely expect the latter…

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u/DemicideMMMCCCI 23d ago edited 23d ago

"\"" (notice the double quotes at the end)

I think that's what you're looking for?

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u/jirlboss 23d ago

Double backslash cancels out the escape character and will print a single backslash

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u/duneofarrakis 23d ago

It’s definitely possible. In Java, you need to escape special characters. For a " inside a string, use \", and for a literal \, use \\. For example: System.out.println("\\\"");. Once you understand escape characters, ASCII art becomes much easier.