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Integer Literals

Integer literals are used to initialize variables of integer data types byte, short, int and long. If an integer literal ends with l or L, it's of type long.


\begin{lstlisting} // Error! literal 42332200000 of type int is out of range int... ...ong, and it's not out of range long myVariable2 = 42332200000L; \end{lstlisting}

Integer literals can be expressed in decimal, hexadecimal and binary number systems. The numbers starting with prefix $0x$ represents hexadecimal. Similarly, numbers starting with prefix $0b$ represents binary.


\begin{lstlisting} // decimal int decNumber = 34; int hexNumber = 0x2F; // 0x re... ...ts hexadecimal int binNumber = 0b10010; // 0b represents binary \end{lstlisting}