toUpperCase in Java does not work

Question

I have a string:

String c = \"IceCream\";

If I use toUpperCase() function then it returns the same string, but I want to get <

Answer 1

Are you expecting the original variable, c, to have been changed by toUpperCase()? Strings are immutable; methods such as .toUpperCase() return new strings, leaving the original un-modified:

String c = "IceCream";
String d = c.toUpperCase();
System.out.println(c); // prints IceCream
System.out.println(d); // prints ICECREAM