title: how to initialize byte array in Java?
body: <p>I have a byte array like this: (this is not the actual byte array, I have modified it)</p>
  
  <pre><code>[69, 121, 101, 45, 62, 118, 101, 114, 196, 195, 61, 101, 98]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to know how can I initialize this in Java so that I can convert this byte array to String? Below line doesn't work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>// this doesn't work
  byte[] bytes = [69, 121, 101, 45, 62, 118, 101, 114, 196, 195, 61, 101, 98];
  
  // now convert to string
  String data = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
  </code></pre>