Conversion of string into char

[Guest_imported]

May I know how to do the above conversion?

Rgds,
Janet

 

[meadandale]

YOu can't convert a string into a char because this isn't rational. A string is often MANY chars. Which one do you want to become your char? The first? The last?

What you can do is convert a string into an array of chars or get a char at a specific location that you specify. For instance, if you are reading user input and want to find out if the user entered a 'y' or a 'n' you can do:

String input = reader.readLine();

if (input!= null && input.charAt(0) == 'y')
// user entered a 'y'
else
// user entered something else

Alternately you can get the chars that make up this string:

char [] chars = myString.toCharArray();