# Character array question

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008 "2020-04-21T16:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![dauwpunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@dauwpunt](https://discourse.processing.org/u/dauwpunt)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008/1 "2020-04-21T16:18:36Z")

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Hi there, I’ve got a (hopefully easy) question regarding an array of characters/symbols that represent text. Like I have it below it doesn’t allow for one of the elements to be ‘F#’ (or anything with more than 1 symbol). Is there a way to have an array like this?

```auto
char[] string = {'C', 'E', 'G', 'B', 'F#'}; 

```

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**Author:** ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008/2 "2020-04-21T17:18:38Z")

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String[] notes = { “A”, …

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**Author:** ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008/3 "2020-04-21T17:20:41Z")

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Note that the “” gets distorted by my phone

Also, remember that == doesn’t work on Strings, use something.equals(“F#”) instead or use switch (notes[i]) {

See reference

Warm regards,

Christoph

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008/4 "2020-04-21T17:24:39Z")

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Hello,

> **[Characters Strings / Examples](https://processing.org/examples/charactersstrings.html)**
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> The character datatype, abbreviated as char, stores letters and symbols in the Unicode format, a coding system developed to support a variety of world languages. Characters are distinguished from othe…

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**Author:** ![dauwpunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@dauwpunt](https://discourse.processing.org/u/dauwpunt)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/character-array-question/20008/5 "2020-04-21T20:01:54Z")

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Ah, thanks Christoph! I did mess around with String but somehow didn’t arrive at that extremely easy solution lol…