Displaying 3 char in JOptionPane

[Ken Mullins]

Can someone tell me how I can get this to display in JptionPane ? It will display the first char but nothing else no matter what I put in the ()

                       char char1 = firstName.charAt(0);
		char char2 = middleName.charAt(0);
		char char3 = lastName.charAt(0);
		char monogram = char1;
                                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, monogram);

    

[pete stein]

a char will hold only a char. You'll need something that holds multiple chars, such as a... String. And if you're concatenating chars into a String a StringBuffer is a convenient and efficient way to do this.

[Rob Spoor]

pete stein wrote:a StringBuffer

StringBuilder is better unless you need the synchronization. In most cases you don't.

[J. Insi]

oooh, you want to combine those 3 chars eh?

well create a single String, and then put those 3 char inside of it.
Done!

[pete stein]

Rob Prime wrote:

pete stein wrote:a StringBuffer

StringBuilder is better unless you need the synchronization. In most cases you don't.

Indeed! Thanks for the correction!