casting an array of chars to a String??plz help

[Aboo Bolaky]

hello...im building a SWING login interface with the JPasswordField Component. To obtain the unmasked password i use
char password[]=txtPassword.getPassword();

the function getPassword returns an array of chars...but i need the result as simply of type String.
i tried the type casting several times but im not having the hang of it...can anyone help me plz?
thanks in advance,
Drftwy

[Victor Ho]

String class has a constructor that takes in char[]:
public String(char[] value);

simply do:

char[] pwdArrray = ...
String pwdStr = new String(pwdArrray);

[Aboo Bolaky]

thnks..
didnt think it would be that easy...was struggling with type casting!!..

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Considering object references, note that you cannot change the type of an object with a cast. A cast creates a reference of a different type than the reference being cast, but both references would point to the same, unchanged object.