Re: Help! String as Integer

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From: Carl Schodde
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:11

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"Chris Smith" <cdsmith@twu.net> wrote in message
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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.

You could also use Integer.parseInt("foo");


> What *do* you want?

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