Problem with my code, help would be appreciated.

so here is the code fragment

private int getChoice(int lower, int upper) {
System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------------------");
System.out.println("Please enter your choice: ");
String userSelection = Keyboard.readInput();
Integer.parseInt(userSelection);
if (userSelection >= lower && userSelection <= upper){
return userSelection;
}else{
displayMainMenu();
}

the problem is ">="

where it says "bad operand types for binary operator '>=' "

first type: java.lang.string
second type: int

Integer.parseInt(userSelection); this line is supossed to turn the string to an int and now im super confused.

thanks in advance :)

Integer.parseInt(userSelection) returns an integer. you must create an int variable and store it, or simply paste the same code where userSelection is in the if statement

The binary operator: >= can not be used to compare a String to an int. One solution would be to convert the String to an int and then compare two int values.

yeah thank you guys i got it to work :)