How can I turn "'\n'" (String) into '\n' (char) in java

Question

Its a simple question, I have a String like this:

String s = "'\n'";

I want to turn that into a character like this:

char c = '\n';

What can I do?

Possible duplicate of How to convert/parse from String to char in java? — Bernhard Barker
– Bernhard Barker, Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 15:42
Is there always a string with one char ("\n" or "a") in it wrapped by two single quotes? — claudegex
– claudegex, Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 15:48
If the string is always like that, why not just use char c = '\n'; instead of picking a single char out of a string? I can't really see any use case for this.. — Jan Gassen
– Jan Gassen, Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 15:56

Aniket Sahrawat · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-13 15:42:00Z

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There are three characters, first is ', second is \n and third is '. You can get the second one using .charAt(1) since it is zero based indexing:

String s = "'\n'";
char ch = s.charAt(1);

answered Feb 13, 2018 at 15:42

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Jan Gassen Over a year ago

Or char ch = (char) (1 << 3 | 1 << 1);, what's the point? ;) I guess there are even more confusing ways of assigning a newline to a char

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