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Monday is APCS after school work/makeup day!

Escape Sequences

When printing out text there are some characters that cannot be printed directly because they have a special meaning. These characters are ", ' and \ . In order to print these characters you need to put a forward slash ion front of them to print out.

g.drawString("Mrs. Noss' pet", 50,50);  // will give an error

g.drawString("Mrs. Noss\' pet", 50,50);  // will give  Mrs. Noss' pet at 50,50

Other escape sequences used to format output are:

\n  - new line

\t = tab

The escape squences in the Java Subset are:

\n, \\ and \" . The \' is only necessary inside the character literals and is not in the subset.