Language Fundamentals

[shaan nimaz]

hi ,
i just want to get the minimum & maximum values of each signed datas.so i simply wrote a code as given below.

class A {
public static void main (String args[]) {
System.out.print(Byte.MIN_VALUE+",");
System.out.print(Byte.MAX_VALUE);
}}

but it works for byte,long & int only. not for short. if i wanna get the MIN_VALUE & MAX_VALUE for short , what do i do?

[marc weber]

Originally posted by shaan nimaz:
...but it works for byte,long & int only. not for short. if i wanna get the MIN_VALUE & MAX_VALUE for short , what do i do?

What exactly did you try for Short? (Did you perhaps use a lowercase 's' accidently?) It should work fine...

public class Shorter {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(Byte.MIN_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Byte.MAX_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Short.MIN_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Short.MAX_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Integer.MIN_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Long.MIN_VALUE);
    System.out.println(Long.MAX_VALUE);
  }
}

[Barry Gaunt]

Works fine if you replace Byte by Short, it prints -32768,32767

[shaan nimaz]

hii marc,
thank you for the reply. but i tried to compile your code then then it gave some errors .


Shorter.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable MIN_VALUE
location: class Short
System.out.println(Short.MIN_VALUE);
^
Shorter.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable MAX_VALUE
location: class Short
System.out.println(Short.MAX_VALUE);
^
2 errors

[Christophe Verré]

Short is in the java.lang package, so you need to import it.

import java.lang.Short;
or
import java.lang.*;

[marc weber]

The java.lang package is imported by default, so there is no need for any import statements.

I don't understand why you're getting errors with this. As far as I can tell, these fields have been in the Short class since Java 1.1.

What version of Java are you using? And did you download this from Sun?

[shaan nimaz]

Originally posted by marc weber:
The java.lang package is imported by default, so there is no need for any import statements.

I don't understand why you're getting errors with this. As far as I can tell, these fields have been in the Short class since Java 1.1.

What version of Java are you using? And did you download this from Sun?

i am using JDK1.5 . I DONT KNOW WHY I AM GETTING ERRORS?