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Typecasting

Posted by Fred Ward on November 20, 2001 at 5:34 PM

Integer.parseInt() will do the trick.

> Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java to an int.

> I have an array Array[] [] that is of type int, and I am reading in input
> from a file as a string

> I write the following, but I get an error.
> Array[k][l] = (int) st.nextToken();

> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

> //Processing each line of the file
> while(contents != null || contents != "911"){ // while the file is not empty
> StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(contents);
> int linecount = 0;
> while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
> for(int k = 0; k < 255; k++){//hard coding rows
> for(int l = 0; l < 255; l++){ //hard coding columns
> Array[k][l] = (int) st.nextToken();
>
>
> }
> }