Help on simple String problem

Question

Hello All:
I need to write the following line into a file.
The line is: <?xml version="1.0" endcoding="UTF-8"?>
Below is the excerpt of my code:
BufferWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("test.xml"));
String str = "<?xml version="1.0" endcoding="UTF-8"?>";
bw.write(str+System.getProperty("line.separator");
When I complie this Java code, I encountered the "; is expected" error because the compiler thought that the string ends at "<?xml version=".
Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Observe this:
String str = "<?xml version="1.0" endcoding="UTF-8"?>";
In this statement, the " is recognized as opening of string and closing of string. In this case, the string is ended like "<?xml version=", because its within the code. You might want to try something like:
String str = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" endcoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";
The \ character will make the subsequence characters in the string to be as a character in string, rather than a double quote to end the string until a " is met.