Convert String to Integer'S

[BuhRock]

How would I go about converting a string to an integer?

Say someone enters a 4 digit string. Like 1234.

Could I use the place of each digit and work with it? Pretty much, I wanna get 1 from the string "1234" and put it in a variable. Then get 2 from the string "1234" and put it in its own variable, and so forth.

Like take the 0 spot, which would be 1. and say change it to something else?

I know I could do something like

public class GetIntFromString {

   public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
 	   String str = "1234";  
  		for(int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
		{
			str.charAt(i);
			
			System.out.println(i);
  		
		}
		  
	}
}

Also do the same thing for each digit of the string. Is this possible without using an array?

[cs_student]

There are actually a couple of ways you could go about doing this. One way would be to use the Integer.getInteger(String nm) method. The other would be to get the characters as you are doing above, casting them to an int, then subtracting the corresponding amount to get them to the number you want to be.

For example

char num = '0';
// should print out 0
System.out.println(((int) num)-48));
// or you can do
int foo = ((int) num) - 48;

Hope that helps

[BuhRock]

why is it -48?

[sujithpr]

Integer.parseInt(str) can be used parse string as integer

[cs_student]

Originally Posted by BuhRock

why is it -48?

We do that to account for the account for the offset of the character in the ascii (or unicode) encoding scheme. To the computer the number 48 and the character 0 are the same. They both contain the same binary number, you simply just tell the computer that one is a character and the other is a number. So in that code I am simply telling the computer to treat the character '0' as a number instead of a character. Once we do this the computer will see the variable as 48. Thus we subtract 48 so that we will have the correct numerical number, 0. Since '1' is equivalent to 49, '2' to 50 ... etc. We can simply cast the character to an integer and subtract 48 to get the correct value.


I hope that made since. For a more visual understanding look up ascii tables, as they will show you the entire ascii encoding scheme.

[BuhRock]

Ok, yeah I got it, thanks.