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Re: Converting an int to a char?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Oct 2 22:07:50 1995
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:15:01 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: begenisi@oswego.Oswego.EDU
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi John,
This has been fixed in the beta APIs. Yo make this work in alpha3 as
follows:
char data[] = {(char)b};
line += new String(data);
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
> I'm trying to convert an int to a character. This is what I basically
> have:
>
> String line = new String();
> int dum=0;
> while ((dum=(int)data.read())!=-1) {
> b=(char)dum;
> line+=(char)b;
> ...blah blah blah...
> }
> System.out.print(line);
>
> And, after a text file was read, I get a stream of numbers:
>
> 46445745725145238945423451242140246024576
>
> which corresponds to the ascii values of the characters I input.
>
> In Pascal, I would write:
>
> c : char;
> b : byte;
> s : string;
>
> b := 53;
> c := chr(b);
> s := s + c;
>
> Write(c);
>
> ... and it would work.
>
> How do I convert an int to a char?
>
> Thanks,
> John
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