converting int to String using toString() ?? possible??

[akash negi]

Hi all, I am trying to write this program to compress a sequence using RLE compression.


for example--
wwwerrrrrttttttttttt will be 3we5r11t



However, in the code I am getting an error

toString() in java.lang.Object cannot be applied to (int)

I am using toString() because of this..toString()

    
public class rle
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		
		String comp = "";
		int counter = 1;
		int pos = 0;
		
		System.out.println("Enter the sequence");
		String uncomp = IO.readString();
		
		for (pos = 0; pos < (uncomp.length()-1); pos++)
		{
			if(uncomp.charAt(pos) == uncomp.charAt(pos+1))
			{
				counter++;
			}
			else if(uncomp.charAt(pos) != uncomp.charAt(pos+1))
			{
				comp = comp + uncomp.charAt(pos);
			}
			else 
			{
				comp = comp + toString(counter) + uncomp.charAt(pos);
				counter = 1;
			}
		}
		
		
				comp = comp + toString(counter) + uncomp.charAt(pos);
				counter = 1;
				
				System.out.println(comp);
	}
}
			
		

comp = comp + toString(counter) + uncomp.charAt(pos);
counter = 1;
}
}


comp = comp + toString(counter) + uncomp.charAt(pos);
counter = 1;

basically I am trying to convert an int value to String. So that it can be concatenated to another string.


Please help..

[Bear Bibeault]

String.valueOf()

[akash negi]

thanks for that

however, not the program has logical errors.

for:

eeeer - e4r; which should be 4er
tttyyyuuui - tyu7i; which is completely off..

any help on correcting that..

I wrote 3 other progs. altogether and am a little confused.

Thanks.

[akash negi]

Never mind.. I figured that out.. the else if statement was not neccessary..


Thanks..