Question

In Oracle, if you use the q operator it will take the string given literally. For example:

select q'[You're awesome]' from dual;

Would work fine even though there’s a single quote in the middle of the string. This is nice because you don’t have to escape all the invalid characters in a string.

I want to know (out of curiosity) if there’s an equivalent to this in Java. I can’t seem to find anything about it on Google. It could be something like this:

String literal = q"[I'm a "literal" string]"; //maybe...

Thanks for the tips!

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no. The double-quote syntax is the only syntax for Java string literals.