Converting Strings to Numbers

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Essential Java Classes

Lesson:
The String and StringBuffer Classes

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Converting Strings to Numbers
The String class itself does not provide any methods for converting a String to a floating point, integer, or other numerical type. However, four of the "type wrapper" classes (Integer, Double, Float, and Long) provide a class method named valueOf that converts a String to a that an object of that type. Here's a small, contrived example of the Float class's valueOf:
String piStr = "3.14159"; Float pi = Float.valueOf(piStr);

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