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What the meaning of various types of white space in Java?

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What is difference of below escape sequences for white space?

\t, \n, \x0B, \f and \r.

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Praveen Avatar asked Mar 17 '10 11:03

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What are the white spaces in Java?

A character is a Java whitespace character if and only if it satisfies one of the following criteria: It is a Unicode space character (SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, or PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR) but is not also a non-breaking space ('\u00A0', '\u2007', '\u202F'). It is '\t', U+0009 HORIZONTAL TABULATION.

What does space mean in Java?

What does space mean in Java? To specifically answer this - a space separates identifiers and keywords. Within a literal character or string, it represents the Unicode SP codepoint.

How do you type whitespace?

With many keyboard layouts, a whitespace character may be entered by pressing spacebar . Horizontal whitespace may also be entered on many keyboards with the Tab ↹ key, although the length of the space may vary.

How do you make a space White in Java?

printf("\t%20s", "str"); To increase the amount of whitespace, make the number (20) higher.

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  • \t      The tab character (\u0009)
  • \n      The newline (line feed) character (\u000A)
  • \r      The carriage-return character (\u000D)
  • \f      The form-feed character (\u000C)
  • \x0B  The vertical tabulation (VT) character
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b.roth Avatar answered Oct 12 '22 23:10

b.roth

 
\t - Horizontal tab
\n - New line
\x0B - Vertical tab
\f - form feed
\r - carriage return
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codaddict Avatar answered Oct 12 '22 22:10

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