title: Unclosed character literal in java
body: <p>I'm new to java and when I tried to print basic hello world program. I am getting following error "Error:(11, 12) java: unclosed character literal "</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.company;
  
  public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
  
      //declare a variable
  
      char a;
      a = 'helloworld';
      System.out.println("type the char value: " + a);
   }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can you please let me know where did I made a mistake ?</p>