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Re: more casting (sort of)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Sat Sep 30 09:48:43 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:07:10 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: lemay@lne.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Laura,
> So as I was playing with casting, I wanted to see how easy it was to
> convert an integer to a string and back again (part of my campaign
> for "useless examples." :)
>
> Integer to string isn't so bad:
>
> String str = String.valueOf(555);
>
> But I can't figure out how to convert a string back to an int. or a
> char. or a boolean.
Try this:
int i = Integer.valueOf(str).intValue();
boolean b = str.equals("true");
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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