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    I am a college student just starting out with java and I am working with pretty easy stuff here (I guess, lol), but im just trying to learn one bit at a time. I am just displaying my values in different ways and I can't seem to get my values to display one at time on new lines. I dont know why the \n isnt compiling. The part i am having trouble with has the "Not Working" tag in the code.

    [highlight=Java]
    //Trying to figure out how to use /n
    public class Test
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    int gold= 5;
    int silver= 3;
    int bronze= 1;

    //Stacked titles
    System.out.println(" gold\n silver\n bronze");
    //Values stacked (not working)
    System.out.print (gold\n silver\n bronze);
    //Values side by side
    System.out.println( gold + " " + silver + " " + bronze);
    //Values added together
    System.out.println(gold + silver + bronze);
    }
    }


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    Default Re: easy question for a pro

    Try this

    //Values stacked (now actually working)
            System.out.println(gold +  "\n" + silver + "\n" + bronze + "\n");

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    Default Re: easy question for a pro

    I would like to see the values stacked on different lines and that just re-does what my first statement did. Thank you for taking a look, I really do appreciate it.
    I would like to see the following output:

    Welcome to DrJava. Working directory is C:\Users\Chad
    > run Test
    gold
    silver
    bronze
    5
    3
    1
    5 3 1
    9
    >

    --- Update ---

    I am so sorry you are right that works great. Thank you

    --- Update ---

    Seems weird though because I thought that "\n" should have displayed \n. Thank You again BlackStones.

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