title: Why does System.out.println error when I try to print with slashes?
body: <p>Hi so we just got started in school with java and I was playing at home. I was wondering why when I made a triangle with * it worked but when I tried to use '/', '\', and '_' to make it look better, it came up with 11 errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Ra2.java:3: error: unclosed string literal
          System.out.println("   /\");
                             ^
  Ra2.java:3: error: ';' expected
          System.out.println("   /\");
                                       ^
  Ra2.java:4: error: illegal start of expression
          System.out.print("  /");
                ^
  Ra2.java:4: error: ';' expected
          System.out.print("  /");
                    ^
  Ra2.java:6: error: unclosed string literal
          System.out.println(" \");
                             ^
  Ra2.java:6: error: ';' expected
          System.out.println(" \");
                                   ^
  Ra2.java:7: error: illegal start of expression
          System.out.print(" /");
                ^
  Ra2.java:7: error: ';' expected
          System.out.print(" /");
                    ^
  Ra2.java:11: error: unclosed string literal
          System.out.print(" \");
                           ^
  Ra2.java:11: error: ';' expected
          System.out.print(" \");
                                 ^
  Ra2.java:13: error: reached end of file while parsing
  }
   ^
  11 errors
  </code></pre>