With the declaration we name a variable and make it known to the compiler. Since each variable name of a data type must be unique, the compiler can also catch the error when trying to declare two variables with the same type and the same name.
The definition means that a memory area is allocated to a variable. The memory area has a unique address and is used to store values. However, a declaration without definition can also take place. Then both concepts are combined.
If we have declared a variable, it has a random value – depending on what is currently in the allocated memory area. Normally you don’t want to work with such random values. Therefore we can use initialization to set the variable to an initial value. Variables should always be initialized to avoid working with a random value.
This code defines a Java class called Datatypes
that demonstrates the use of various primitive data types in Java, such as byte
, short
, int
, long
, double
, float
, char
, boolean
, and String
. The code also declares and initializes variables for each of these data types, as well as an array of int
s.
The main
method of the class prints the values of these variables using the System.out.println
statement, concatenating the values of the byte
, short
, int
, long
, double
, float
, and char
variables with the corresponding string representations, and the value of the boolean
variable with either true
or false
. Finally, it also prints the value of the third element of the myArray
array.
public class Datatypes {
public static void main(String[] args) {
byte byteNumber = 10;
short shortNumber = 10000;
int integerNumber = 1000000000;
long longNumber = 10000000000L;
double doubleNumber = 5.534;
float floatNumber = 6.767f;
char symbol = 'c';
boolean isBoolean= true;
String charString = "My first string";
int myArray[] = {16, 24, 35, 41};
System.out.println(byteNumber + "\n"
+ shortNumber + "\n"
+ integerNumber + "\n"
+ longNumber + "\n"
+ doubleNumber + "\n"
+ floatNumber + "\n"
+ symbol + "\n"
+ charString + "\n"
+ isBoolean + "\n"
+ myArray[2]);
}
}
10
10000
1000000000
10000000000
5.534
6.767
c
My first string
true
35