Thread: Convert CHAR to STRING

hello to all,

public class Person
{
    protected String name;  
    protected String gender;      
    protected int dateOfBirth;
    protected String address;
    protected String natInsceNo;
    protected String phoneNo;
    protected static int counter;//class variable
 
 
public Person(String nme,String addr, char sex, int howOld, String ins,String phone)
{
    dateOfBirth = howOld;
    gender = sex;
    name = nme;
    address = addr;
    natInsceNo = ins;
    phoneNo = phone;
    counter++;
}    
 
public String getGebder()
{
	   if (gender == 'm' || gender == 'M')
		   return "Male";
	   else if (gender == 'f' || gender == 'F')
		   return "Female";
	   else 
		   return "Wrong Input";
}

on this code, the user insert a char and the programs returns a String
could you please tell how to make the conversion?
thank you in advanced!

the user has to enter a CHAR and get a STRING
the error is :Incompatible operand types String and char

Multiple markers at lines

line 30 - Incompatible operand types String and char
line 32 - Incompatible operand types String and char

this is how the eclipse report the errors!

You're in luck. Being that a string is of the String class and not a primitive variable, it has it's own methods, one of them being the toString() method. Just input the char as the parameter and it will return a string.

gender = toString(sex);

Since gender is a string, and you are trying to give it a char value, you get an error. But when you do what I just wrote, it converts the char sex into a string and fills the value of gender.

Hope this helps!

i did that and the following error :
The method toString() in the type Object is not applicable for the arguments (char)

Your problem here is in the declaration of the member called gender.

    protected String gender;

Change that to be.

    protected char gender;

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no! assignment's specification!

hello guys,
i just tried all the suggested combination and all of them
came with the following error :
Incompatible operand types String and char on the following lines

the error appears both if statements

public class Person
{
    protected String name;  
    protected String gender;      //protected attributes are visible in the subclass
    protected int dateOfBirth;
    protected String address;
    protected String natInsceNo;
    protected String phoneNo;
    protected static int counter;//class variable
 
//Constractor Starts, (returns a new object, may set an object's initial state)
public Person(String nme,String addr, char sex, int howOld, String ins,String phone)
{
    dateOfBirth = howOld;
    gender = Character.toString(sex);
    name = nme;
    address = addr;
    natInsceNo = ins;
    phoneNo = phone;
    counter++;
}    
//Constractor Ends, (returns a new object, may set an object's initial state)
 
//Accessor Starts, (Returns info about the state of an object )
 
public String getGebder()
{
 
	   if (gender == 'm' || gender == 'M')
		   return "Male";
	   else if (gender == 'f' || gender == 'F')
		   return "Female";
	   else 
		   return "Wrong Input";
}

Ok, in that case, keep the code you have up there using the toString method as such.

Character.toString(sex);

And then change your code in the getGebder method to be something like this.

public String getGebder()
{
	   if ("m".equalsIgnoreCase(gender))
		   return "Male";
	   else if ("f".equalsIgnoreCase(gender))
		   return "Female";
	   else 
		   return "Wrong Input";
}

That should do it.

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it did work thank you so much!!!

would

String word = "" + sex;

be considered bad code?