title: What variable to use in Java declaration
body: <p>What's the best variable to use while prompting a user to insert a symbol using the scanner class? </p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.util.Scanner;
  
  public class characterSquare
  {
      public static void main(String[] args)
      {
          Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
          System.out.print( "Please enter a symbol");
          'x' = sc.nextLine();
          System.out.print( 'x', 'x', 'x' ,'x', 'x');
      }
  }
  </code></pre>