Inside XML

Creating Strings in Java

You may have noticed that you can combine strings with the + operator in Java, just as you can in JavaScript:

public class app
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        double chargesDue[][] = {{1093.66, 667.19, 45.99, 890.30, 99.06},
                                 {2019.00, 129.99, 19.01, 630.90, 23.17}};

        System.out.println("Customer 4 owes $" +
            chargesDue[0][4] + " in the eastern branch.");
        System.out.println("Customer 4 owes $" +
            chargesDue[1][4] + " in the western branch.");
    }
}

The reason this works is that strings are supported by the built-in class String in Java. In fact, the String class is treated in a special way in Java, and you can use it just as you would any built-in data type, as in the following case. (Note that I don't have to ...