Unclosed string literal

Question

I am having a problem compliling the below:
public class Name
public static void main (String[] args)
char name,bday,hobby,book,movie;
name = 'Brian ';
bday = 'March 15th 1975';
hobby = 'Video Games';
book = '\"Lord of the Rings\"';
movie = '\"Star Wars\"';
System.out.println ("My name is:" + name);
System.out.println ("I was born on:" + bday);
System.out.println ("My hobbies include:" +hobby);
System.out.println ("My foavorite book is:" + book);
System.out.println ("Also, my favorite movie of all time is:" + movie);
I keep getting unclosed string literal errors but I am closing them off w/ a ' not a " as I thought the char primative should be handled. Any help for someone starting out would be appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

A character can only hold one character.
Brian, for example, is more than one letter, and therefore more than one character. Therefore, 'Brian' is not a valid character. "Brian" is, however, a valid String.
In other words, change all your char variables to Strings.