Re: Help! String as Integer

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From: Chris Smith
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:55

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> Luke Vanderfluit <luke@chipcity.com.au> wrote ...
> > I need to interpret a line of text as an integer.
> >

Using what conversion?

> > String a = "yes";
> > String b = "ls";
> > int aa = Integer.valueOf("foo").intValue();
> > int bb = Integer.valueOf("bar").intValue();
> > System.out.println(aa);
> > System.out.println(bb);
> >
> > This throws a NumberFormatException

As well it should, since neither "foo" nor "bar" are valid integer values.
What integer value do you want to get back?  For one possible integer value,
you could use "foo".hashCode(), but that may not be what you want.  What
*do* you want?

Chris Smith

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