Printing Text in Terminal Using Java

When writing Java code, if we want to print something in the terminal, we can make use of System.out.println().

Here is a program that prints "Hello World!" in the terminal.

System.out.println("Hello World!");

Here is the output:

Hello World!

Display Variables

System.out.println() can also take variables. We might need to print the output of an expression or the variable for debugging.

Here is a program that adds two numbers and prints the sum:

int sum = 2 + 3;
System.out.println(sum);

Here is the output:

5

println vs print

Similar to println(), there is another method called print(). The difference is, println() automatically adds a new line after printing the message. That is not done by print().

Here is a set of 3 System.out.println() statements:

System.out.println("Apple");
System.out.println("Banana");
System.out.println("Orange");

Each printing will be done in separate lines.

Apple
Banana
Orange

Whereas, let us try the same three lines using System.out.print():

System.out.print("Apple");
System.out.print("Banana");
System.out.print("Orange");

Here is the output:

AppleBananaOrange