how do you leave a line space in java?

**ss7** · November 3rd, 2009, 02:07 PM

Hi,

I am trying to implement a controller function which will test all my methods.

As a result of this class information will be displayed.

Below is a sample of my coding.

System.out.println("After copy method, is Date1 equal to Date2? ");
            if (Date2.equals(Date1))
            System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is functioning correctly. Date2 has been copied to Date1.");
 
            else
            {
                System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is not functioning correctly");
 
            }

I wish for there to be a blank line between "After copy method, is Date1 equal to Date2? " and whichever line is returned after the if statement. How do i implement this?

Thanks in advance.

**rsala004** · November 3rd, 2009, 03:55 PM

Characters (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Numbers and Strings)

System.out.println("After copy method, is Date1 equal to Date2? [B]\n[/B]");
            if (Date2.equals(Date1))
            System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is functioning correctly. Date2 has been copied to Date1.");
 
            else
            {
                System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is not functioning correctly");
 
            }

alternate 'solution'

System.out.println("After copy method, is Date1 equal to Date2? ");
[B]System.out.println();[/B]
            if (Date2.equals(Date1))
            System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is functioning correctly. Date2 has been copied to Date1.");
 
            else
            {
                System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is not functioning correctly");
 
            }

**ss7** · November 3rd, 2009, 05:43 PM

Entering \n literally prints that. Inserting \n after the quatation marks creates an error, illegal character:\92

I have previously use the second method describe, System.out.println, however, it is not possible for this to be used within the if-else statement. Again this creates an error.

**helloworld922** · November 3rd, 2009, 09:52 PM

... \n is an escape character, and should be in between the quotations. Post your code so we can see what is going wrong?

**rsala004** · November 4th, 2009, 02:53 AM

you may have entered wrong slash, and typed it correctly here

**iank** · November 5th, 2009, 01:05 AM

\n which means next line

**Freaky Chris** · November 5th, 2009, 07:35 AM

\n means bad. Do not use it! It is not portable and doesn't work with file streams and things properly. You should use either a blank println statement or better yet.

System.out.print(System.getProperty("line.separator"));

Boo hisss at \n this is java! Do thigs properly.

Chris

**tonka** · November 5th, 2009, 08:20 AM

i'm no expert, but woulden't this code just put a println after the println question? thus seporating the final println from the first? =

System.out.println("After copy method, is Date1 equal to Date2? ");
System.out.println("");
            if (Date2.equals(Date1))
            System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is functioning correctly. Date2 has been copied to Date1.");
 
            else
            {
                System.out.println("The copy method in class Date is not functioning correctly");
 
            }

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