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You denote a particular character by surrounding that character with single quotation marks, thus distinguishing the character from, say, a variable name. For example, you denote the character M by writing 'M'.

If you want to see whether you have extracted a particular character, you compare what you have extracted with that character. Then, if you wish, you can center an if statement on that comparison, as in the following example, which executes the block only if the first character in the string is M:

if (codeString.charAt(0) == 'M') { 
 ... 
}