Hello world app code is not working

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Hi I am making a hello world app, my third line is keep messing up and I don't know why. Any suggestions, my teacher gave me a brief direction for it but looks like i messed up on something and i went through it three times.

public class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String [] args){
        System.out.println(“Hello World”);
    }
}

`“` and `”` are not valid string delimiters. you need to use plain quotes, e.g. `shift`-`'` on your keyboard, not the fancy typographic "6's and 9's". e.g. use a real code editor, not something useless like MS Word — Marc B, Jun 16 '13 at 01:50
Thank you, @dkroy - don't know what I was thinking! There's no argc there! ;-) — STLDev, Jun 16 '13 at 01:58
@MarcB not everyone is using qwerty keyboards :p Shift+' gives 4 here — fge, Jun 16 '13 at 02:00
thankyou @MarcB this helped me alot i just started learning java — user2489931, Jun 16 '13 at 02:19

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '13 at 01:53

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The quote marks are not good.

Java standard quotes for strings are ", and not ”.

Anyways, also try System.out.println(1); and tell us does it print number.

answered Jun 16 '13 at 01:53

darijan

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '13 at 01:53

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You need to put " instead of ” for your string...

public class HelloWorldApp {

 public static void main(String[] args){
    System.out.println("Hello World");
  }

 }

answered Jun 16 '13 at 01:53

Kylie

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Not really, single quotes are for chars. – darijan Jun 16 '13 at 01:54
Good edit, but now your answer is redundant. – darijan Jun 16 '13 at 02:10

Hello world app code is not working

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