Question

If I were to create a String in Java:

String example = "text";

what is the value of the variable example? At first I said that the value is: text, with no quotes, but now I am second guessing myself thinking that the value is: “text”, with quotes. Help!

Answer 1

The variable value is text with no quotes. The quotes are only here to specify that the provided data is a string and not a variable name.

If you want to store "text" in a variable, you’ll have to do :

string s = "\"text\"";

To be technically accurate, as Henry pointed out below, the actual value of the variable is a memory reference to a String instance containing text.