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Understanding Java Tokens

This document defines and describes the basic building blocks of the Java programming language, including identifiers, keywords, literals, whitespace, comments, separators, and operators. It notes that identifiers can begin with letters or underscores and include digits after the first character. It lists some common literals like integers, floating-point values, characters, and strings. It also describes the different types of comments in Java and commonly used separators like semicolons. Finally, it provides examples of some common operators in Java.

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Understanding Java Tokens

This document defines and describes the basic building blocks of the Java programming language, including identifiers, keywords, literals, whitespace, comments, separators, and operators. It notes that identifiers can begin with letters or underscores and include digits after the first character. It lists some common literals like integers, floating-point values, characters, and strings. It also describes the different types of comments in Java and commonly used separators like semicolons. Finally, it provides examples of some common operators in Java.

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JAVA TOKENS

DONE BY:

KAMESH G
21BIT226
BSC.IT_2ND YEAR
JAVA TOKENS
Following are the basic language building blocks:
1. Identifiers :
• Identifiers can begin with a letter, an underscore, or a currency character.
• After the first character, identifiers can also include digits.
• Identifiers can be of any length.
• JavaBeans methods must be named using camelCase, and depending on the
method’s purpose, must start with set, get, is, add, or remove.
KEYWORDS

• There are 49 reserved keywords currently defined in the Java language.


• These keywords, combined with the syntax of the operators and separators,
form the definition of the Java language.
• These keywords cannot be used as names for a variable, class, or method.
3.LITERALS

• A constant value in Java is created by using a literal representation of it.


For example,
• Here are some literals: 98.6 ‘X’ “This is a test”
• Left to right, the first literal specifies an integer, the next is a floating-point
value, the third is a character constant, and the last is a string.
• A literal can be used anywhere a value of its type is allowed.
4.WHITE SPACE

• • In Java, whitespace is a space, tab, or newline.


5.COMMENTS

• As mentioned, there are three types of comments defined by Java.


• You have already seen two: single-line and multiline.
• The third type is called a documentation comment.
• This type of comment is used to produce an HTML file that documents your
program.
• The documentation comment begins with
a /** and ends with a */.
6.SEPARATORS

• Separators are used to inform the Java compiler of how things are grouped in
the code.
• For example,
items in a list are separated by commas much like lists of items in a sentence.
• The most commonly used separator in Java is the semicolon.
• As you have seen, it is used to terminate statements.
• List of separators -> ; , { } ( ) [ ] .
7.OPERATORS :

• Operators means specify an evaluation to be performed on a data


(Operands).
• The operators supported by Java is as under :
* + – * / % & | ^ ~ && || ! < > <= >= << >> >>> = ? ++ — == += -= *= /= %= &= |=
^= != <<= >>= >>>= . [ ] ( )
•Thank you!

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