JOptionPane.showInputDialog problem

[kunagu varun]

What i am trying to do is to get a character as an input and test whether it is vowel or not. For this purpose i want to use input box to get the input..This is the actual code i am trying to run ..

    
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
class JSwitch
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        char choice=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a character:");
        switch(choice)
        {
            case 'a':
            case 'e':
            case 'i':
            case 'o':
            case 'u':
                System.out.println("The Entered character is a vowel");
                break;
            default:
                System.out.println("The Entered character is a consonant");
        }
    }
}

I am always getting the following error
File: G:\Java Projects\simple\JSwitch.java [line: 8]
Error: G:\Java Projects\simple\JSwitch.java:8: inconvertible types
found : java.lang.String
required: char
I have also tried with the following...

    
        char choice=(String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a character:");

Please help me....

[Rob Camick]

Error: G:\Java Projects\simple\JSwitch.java:8: inconvertible types
found : java.lang.String
required: char

The method returns a String NOT a char. You can't assign a String to a char.

So assign a String to a String.

[kunagu varun]

ya thank you for the response..

I have also tried by initializing it as String.. If i do it so,i cannot use the variable inside switch

[Rob Camick]

Read the String API for a method that will allow you to extract a char from the String.

[Rob Spoor]

Make sure to check if the return value is null - if that is the case the user pressed Cancel or pressed the X. Also check if the entered string contains no characters at all.