Regarding String to Boolean

[surya.raaj prakash]

Hi Friends,

String str1 = "144";
	System.out.println(Boolean.parseBoolean(str1));

why In preceding code it always gives false even i pass null value?

[Maneesh Godbole]

From the API docs

The boolean returned represents the value true if the string argument is not null and is equal, ignoring case, to the string "true".

As you can see, anything else besides "true", including null generates false.

[Joanne Neal]

surya.raaj prakash wrote:why In preceding code it always gives false even i pass null value?

Because that's how the method works. If you pass anything other than a string containing the value "true" (ignoring case) the method returns false.