Parsing or Casting a JtextField? Help requested....

Hi!
I have a JTextField which receives at runtime a value. Now this value
has to be inserted with a specialtype (not text) in a database.

In the java chat somebody told me that I have to parse. I know only on
C++ that the conversion a value from one datatype to one other has to be
casted.

Can somebody give me a sample?

I would thank very much for any help coming from your side

kind regards


Tamer Higazi

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