String to char problems

[Kevin P Smith]

Hi

Trying to compare the first charater from SQL return with all the characters from the Alphabet.

I have all the code apart from one problem. The alphabet characters are of type 'char' and the SQL returns of type 'String' (or .substring(0,1) to be exact) but when I try to compare the alphabet letter with the String
( if(char == string)... ) I get a "Incompatible type for char. Can't convert char to java.lang.String" error.

So I need to either find a way to compare a char to a String.substring or a way of converting a String.substring to a char and comparing that to another char.
[ November 30, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Ben Souther]

You could compare them as strings.

 if(myString.equals(String.valueOf(myChar)) .... 

There is also the String.charAt(int) method...
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#charAt(int)
[ November 30, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]

[Kevin P Smith]

GENIUS!

Sometimes looking at things from a different angle...

Job done,

Cheers.

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to Java in General (beginner)