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Characters and Strings

Characters and Strings

Learn about Kotlin’s character and string manipulation, including Unicode, escape sequences, and formatting.

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Characters

To represent a single character, we use the Char type. We specify a character using single quotes (').

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fun main() {
    println('A') // A
    println('Z') // Z
}

Each character is represented as a Unicode number. To find out the Unicode of a character, we use the code property.

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fun main() {
    println('A'.code) // 65
}

Kotlin accepts Unicode characters. To describe them by their code, we start ...