Thread: Need to input algorithems with String values.

Originally Posted by Leonardo1143

Oh okay so using 10 for my example should fix it?

Not quite. You don't want to pass a String literal into the method, but rather the String variable that holds the number String. The String held by the variable should have no spaces, no letters, no punctuation, nothing but a number, and you should place the result of this method call into an int variable. Why not give it another try and see what happens?

As an aside, last I looked, your printf method call looked a bit off too.

Originally Posted by curmudgeon

I think one problem is that you may be confusing Strings with variables. For instance if you have a variable named armor, it is not the same thing as the String "armor", and you can't use them interchangeably. For instance if you have

String armor = "100";

You can't use "armor" in a method as a substitute for the variable above.

Re choice of 27, what example did you see it used in?

Edit:
Oh, I see. Yeah the Integer API does have an example of a 27 radix. This is very esoteric stuff, and something you'll likely never use. I suggestion that you don't use this example, but instead I'd use the Integer.parseInt method that takes a single String as a parameter, the one that uses the default base-10 radix.

Okay, now i am bit confused. So I may just go the longer route and just individually label the parts I need for my algorithm to work (armor,combat level,etc). Thanks for trying though.