problem while reading from console

[Sunni srivastav]

Today I was trying to read input from console.I altered the code given in herbert shield's complete reference book but..but was getting error
"Type mismatch: cannot convert from int to String".

public class BRRead {
	public static void main(String args[])
    throws IOException
  {
    //String c;
    char a;
    String b;
    int x;
    BufferedReader br = new
            BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
      
    a = (char)br.read();
    System.out.println(a);
    b=Character.toString(a);
    b=Integer.parseInt(b);
   }
}

[bhanu chowdary]

what is the input you are giving???

[Rob Spoor]

You're assigning the result of Integer.parseInt to String b, not int x. And please UseCodeTags next time.

[N Sahni]

You might also want to check this topic for more information: we-ask-user-input-writing

[Sunni srivastav]

Rob Spoor wrote:You're assigning the result of Integer.parseInt to String b, not int x. And please UseCodeTags next time.

Thanks Rob.It worked now.

[Rob Spoor]

You're welcome.