toString or String.valueOf()

[Kingsley Mullers]

I have declared the following values as int and double but my problem is that I�ve created an array which returns a string which means since Prefnum is declared as an int then it will have to be converted to a string, now do I used String.valueOf or toString to convert so I can print out these values as strings? The error that i'm getting when using either one of the two is incompatible data type.

thanks


int Prefnum=0;
int Arefnum=0;
int Pserial=0;
double Pvalue=0;

try {

String[] proceedingsList=crime.getProceedingsDetails(conn,referenceNumber);
// Prefnum=String.valueOf(proceedingsList[0]);
// Prefnum=(proceedingsList[0]).toString();

Prefnum=proceedingsList[0]);
if(proceedingsList[0]==null){
Prefnum="";
}else{
Prefnum=(proceedingsList[0]);
}

Ptype=proceedingsList[1];
if(proceedingsList[1]==null){
Ptype="";
}else{
Ptype=proceedingsList[1];
}
Pserial=proceedingsList[2];
if(proceedingsList[2]==null){
Pserial="";
}else{
Pserial=proceedingsList[2];
}

[Ton Fever]

Can you tell me what the error you got is?

[Kingsley Mullers]

i'm getting "incompatible type; found: java.lang.String,required: int" error.

thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

Either "String.valueOf(Prefnum)" or "(new Integer(Prefnum)).toString()" should work.

[Kingsley Mullers]

i've tried it like this...

String Prefnum;

Prefnum=Integer.parseInt(proceedingsList[0]).toString(); //incompatible type

and also tried

int Prefnum=0;
Prefnum=String.valueOf(proceedingsList[0]); //incompatible type

what am i missing here?

thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

1) Integer.parseInt takes a String as parameter, not an int, and it returns an int, which is not an object, and thus does not have a toString method.

2) String.valueOf returns a String, not an int.

Try
int Prefnum = Integer.parseInt(proceedingsList[0]);

If you're in doubt what kind of parameter a method accepts, or what kind of value it returns, you can check the javadocs for java.lang.Integer and java.lang.String.
[ August 29, 2005: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]