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Sorry folks, but according to the Java spec, it should work.

Both the PrintStream and PrintWriter classes feature a print/println method
which accepts both a single character and a character array.

HDW
Ken Chan wrote in message ...
>Rob C wrote:
>> String roc = "Rocker"
>>
>> should read
>>
>> char roc[] =  {'R', 'o', 'c', 'k', 'e', 'r'};
>
>Actually, it probably shouldn't <g>. Unlike C, in Java a String is not an
>array of characters. Therefore, you can't call roc.substring(), because
>the array roc does not have a substring() method. (About all you can do
>with an array is gets its .length and access its elements.)
>
>The error you got is probably due to the compiler attempting to check the
>base classes for the named method, all the way back to plain old Object.
>
>It is perfectly legal to define an array of characters. But to print it,
>you will have to loop through the array, or copy them into a string with:
>
>  new String( char[], int offset, int count )
>
>which seems like cheating <g>, or any other number of ways; just not the
>way you were trying....
>
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>//Ken@Inprise
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