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Java program to get the class name using the object of the class

Java example to get the class name using the object of the class.
Submitted by Nidhi, on April 29, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will use the getClass() method to get the class name using the object of the class and print it.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to get the class name using the object of the class is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to get the class name 
// using the object of the class

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Main m = new Main();
    System.out.println(m.getClass());
  }
}

Output:

class Main

Explanation:

In the above program, we created a public class Main that contains a main() method. The main() method is the entry point for the program. Here, we created the object of class Main. Then we used the getClass() method to get the name of the class and print the result.

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