Thread: help with Idea! (Print out a word in the console without using the letters the word contains) I am new to JAVA!

Hey! , so first of all Im very new to JAVA(or programming overall) and I do not study or work with programming, Trying to learn this is just a pure hobby for me.

So , I have an idea I want to test out, I want to print out a word in the console without using the acutall letters that the word contains.
Example: I want to type out "TEST" in the console, is it possible to do that without using the letters in the code, like.. not just create a string and name it X and then print out the string cause then the letters would still be typed when I assigned the string.

Thx in advance!

maybe I explained bad sorry, the only ourpose of this is its a fun project for me . I am trying to print out my name without using the letters the name contains, here is some example how I dont wanna do it:
take "TEST" as example, I do not want to make Strings like x="T" , y="E" , z="S" and then print out x+y+z+t,
and I dont wanna make a string called x="test" and printout x.

because in both these examples you can clearly see that I just reassigned the letters to something else.

The only purpose of this is that the idea occured to me and I thought it could be fun to try to create a word without actually using the letters it needs. I am sorry for my really bad explantations, cause I just started to learn JAVA very recently so its hard to explain proprely.

I do not even know if this is possible , please let me know if you want me to explain more deeply

Originally Posted by Chris.Brown.SPE

Look into ascii values for characters. An int value of 65 casted to a char would make an 'A'. Using this method you can use numbers to piece together your string for output.

Terms to look up: "ascii chart" and "cast int to char". That should get you started.

Thank you! sound like exactly what Iam looking for!

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Thank you Chris.brown , that helped me alot Now I am just figuring out how to print it all on the same line instead of writing system.out.print for every letter, but I managed to find the numbers that represent each letter and it turned out good, ty for your help

yep that helped, fixed it all now, ty for the help!