Java Programming/Literals

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Java Literals are syntactic representations of boolean, character, numeric, or string data. Literals provide a means of expressing specific values in your program. For example, in the following statement, an integer variable named count is declared and assigned an integer value. The literal 0 represents, natually enough, the value zero.

int count = 0;

The following method call passes a String literal "int count = 0;" the boolean literal true and the special null value null to the method parse():

List items = parse("int count = 0;", true, null);

• Boolean Literals
• Numeric Literals
  • Character Literals
  • Integer Literals
  • Floating Point Literals
• String Literals
• null