' \ '-Invalid character constant?

Question

I need to do this:

while (result2.charAt(j)!=\'\\\'){

    }

I get an error saying: Invalid character constant.

Why? a

Answer 1

I got this similar error in Eclipse for Android although for different situation, and I just figured out that in Java you cannot enclose a string (multi-character word) in single quotes. So you need to have like - "sampleword" strings enclosed in double quotes rather than single quote to get rid of such error thought I could just share it here for others to refer..