Java Literals

A literal is a source code representation of a fixed value. They are represented directly in the code without any computation.
Literals can be assigned to any primitive type variable. For example:

byte a = 68;

char a = 'A'

byte, int, long, and short can be expressed in decimal(base 10),hexadecimal(base 16) or octal(base 8) number systems as well.
Prefix 0 is used to indicates octal and prefix 0x indicates hexadecimal when using these number systems for literals. For example:

int decimal = 100;

int octal = 0144;

inthexa = 0x64;

String literals in Java are specified like they are in most other languages by enclosing a sequence of characters between a pair of double quotes. Examples of string literals are:

"Hello World"

"two\nlines"

"\"This is in quotes\""

String and char types of literals can contain any Unicode characters. For example:

char a = '\u0001';

String a = "\u0001";

Java language supports few special escape sequences for String and char literals as well. They are: