Re: converting String type to char

From: David Heath (barcodedave_at_netscape.net)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:24:51 GMT

Hi Mark,

Gender is a String type. The original post was because I was going to
try changing the attribute to a char type. After seeing some of the
responses I saw that it wasn't necessary. if(gender.equals("M") worked.

This all started because the compiler didn't throw an error on the line
if(gender == "M")
but the code didn't work. I now understand that == is used to compare
integer or char types.

David

Mark Haase wrote:

> In article <uQvZb.25468$Xp.103864@attbi_s54>,
> David Heath <barcodedave@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Steve,
>>
>>What I'm trying to achieve is to display "Welcome Mr./Ms. <name>" based
>>on user input to name and gender. This is the code
>>
>> public void welcome()
>> {
>> if(gender == "M") {
>
>
>
> Does it even compile? I should think not. You should have posted the
> error message, but I can explain part of the problem right now.
>
> When you put double quotes around something, that declares it as a
> String literal. So you're comparing a char to a String, which is illegal.
>
> Put single quotes around a char to tell the compiler that its a char
> literal.
>

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