Literals

by Michael Thomas

Objectives (topics)

Topic	Notes
Literal - Integers & Floating Point	10L or 10l = 10 as a long 10.0D or 10.0d = 10 as a double 10.0F or 10.0f = 10 as a float Integers - default data types & casting: 10 - is an int, unless casted. (byte) 10 - is a byte 10L - is a long Floating Points - default data types & casting: 10.0 - is a double, unless casted. (float) 10.0 - is a float 10.0F - is a float 10.0D - is a double Exponents: 10E3 = 10 * 1000 = 10,000 (10e3 - also works) 10.5E4 = 10.5 * 10,000 = 105,000
Literals - boolean	Example of boolean literals blnExample = true; //true (lowercase only) blnExample = false; //false (lowercase only)
Literals - char	Example of char literals charExample = 'A'; charExample = 'a'; charExample = 'Z'; charExample = 'z'; charExample = '0'; //Not a number or digit! charExample = '9'; //Not a number or digit! charExample = '\u0041'; //Unicode - same as 'A' charExample = '\u005A'; //Unicode - same as 'Z' charExample = '\u0061'; //Unicode - same as 'a' charExample = '\u007A'; //Unicode - same as 'z' charExample = '\u0030'; //Unicode - same as '0' charExample = '\u0039'; //Unicode - same as '9'
Literals - Bases	Literals for Bases 1 - Decimal-base10 (ex: int MyInt = 1;) 01 - Octal-base8 (leading zero) (ex: int MyInt = 01;) 0x1 - Hexadecimal-base16 (leading 0x) (ex: int MyInt = 0x1;) '\u0000' - Unicode base 16 '\u000' - Unicode base 8