converting from String to int

[Bud Tippins]

I'm trying to convert from a String to do numeric sorting. Below is what I would like to accomplish in what I think should work. But I get an error message in NetBeans saying "inconvertible types. Required: int. Found Java.lang.String" why won't this convert the string to an integer? How do I accomplish this?

Thanks for your help.

    public int toIntRating() {
        String rating = "99";
        int intRating = (int) rating;
        return intRating;
    }

[Tom Reilly]

Look at the Integer.parseInt() method.

[Tapas Chand]

Dear Bud
In java there is a parseInt method of Integer class by which you can convert String to integer
Your code should be like this

public int toIntRating() {  
       String rating = "99";  
       return Integer.parseInt(rating);  
}

[Bud Tippins]

Thank you. That worked.