Thread: Using \n escape sequence in a toString method

Hello all,
I'm working on a homework problem that's due this evening. The prob asks to create a toString method that returns a "nicely formatted, multi-line description" of the class objects I created. The class is called "Book" and its objects are title, author, publisher, and copyright date. My toString code trying to use \n for a new line is as follows:

return ("Book - Title: "+ title\n"Author: "+ author\n"Publisher: " + publisher\n"Copyright: " + copyright);

This gives me several errors: syntax errors on the token n, syntax error insert ")" to complete expression, n cannot be resolved to a variable, syntax error on token "Invalid Character", ( expected...where am I going wrong? The only example I found in my text book uses the \n sequence in a System.out.println method. Can this even be used in a toString method?

I'm veeeeery new to java/code writing so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
-C

Thanks for the help newbie! This did help create newlines for each item, but now its calling Title: " + title", Author: "+ author" instead of getting the data I set up for the 3 books I created in my driver class. Here's the code for my Book class and the code for driver class called Bookshelf...do you see any problems with them?
public class Book {
// Instance data
private String title;
private String author;
private String publisher;
private int copyright;



// Constructor
public Book(String title, String author, String publisher, int copyright) {
this.title = title;
this.author = author;
this.publisher = publisher;
this.copyright = copyright;
}


// getters
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}

public String getAuthor() {
return author;
}

public String getPublisher() {
return publisher;
}

public int getCopyright() {
return copyright;
}

//setters
public void setTitle(String newTitle) {
title = newTitle;
}

public void setAuthor(String newAuthor) {
author = newAuthor;
}

public void setPublisher(String newPublisher) {
publisher = newPublisher;
}

public void setCopyright(int newCopyright) {
copyright = newCopyright;
}

public String toString () {
return ("Book - Title: + title\n" +"Author: + author\n" + "Publisher: + publisher\n" + "Copyright: " + copyright);

public class Bookshelf {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Book b1, b2, b3;

b1 = new Book("Schizos Are Never Alone, ","Sigmund Freud, ","Brutal Books, ", 1901);
b2 = new Book("Hitchhiker's guide to Mexico, ","Felipe Caldron, ","Leer Libros, ", 2009);
b3 = new Book("Forget Keshawn, Throw ME the Damn Ball, ","Chad Johnson, ","Happy Times Press, ", 2011);

System.out.println("b1: " + b1); //implicitly calls d1.toString()
System.out.println("b2: " + b2.toString()); //explicitly calls d2.toString()
System.out.println("b3: " + b3);


Thanks,
-C

Thanks again newbie....I got it working great now.

-C