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 The use of an unbalanced right parenthesis as an escape character was inherited from APL. The double curly brace mechanism was a compromise between J's existing use of curly braces and visual conventions used in a variety of other languages.
+=={{header|Java}}==
+<syntaxhighlight lang="java">
+import java.util.List;
+public final class QuotingConstructs {
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		// Java uses double quotes for strings and single quotes for characters.
+		String simple = "This is a simple string";
+		char letter = 'A';
+		// A Text Block is denoted by triple quotes.
+		String multiLineString = """
+                This is an example of multi-line string.
+                    Text formatting is preserved.
+                Text blocks can be used for multi-line string.
+                """;
+		System.out.println(multiLineString);
+		// Java's primitive data types: boolean, byte, char double, float, int, long, short,
+		// can be used to to store data, for example,
+		final int blockLength = 64;
+		// Arrays or lists of these data types are possible, for example,
+		double[] state = new double[] { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 };
+		// Custom data types can be stored in a record or a class, for example,
+		record Circle(int centreX, int centreY, double radius) {}
+		// A list of custom data types:
+		List<Circle> circles = List.of( new Circle(1, 2, 1.25), new Circle(-2, 3, 2.50) );
+	}
+}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+{{ out }}
+<pre>
+This is an example of multi-line string.
+    Text formatting is preserved.
+Text blocks can be used for multi-line string.
+</pre>
 =={{header|jq}}==