Convert Linked List Object element to String

Hello,

I have a linked list with the following elements (A,B,C,D)

I created a method to copy the first Node and store it an Object variable called tempNode.
After running the method the tempNode is now set as "A"

So how do I convert this "A" object into a string?
Ive tried this

String newTempNode = new String(tempNode);

and it is complaining about the following

cannot find symbol
symbol: constructor String (java.lang.Object)
location: class java.lang.String

I figured I needed to import a class so I did this

import java.lang.Object;
import java.lang.String;

still gets the same error. What am I doing wrong?

What do you mean "convert an object into a String"? There is no generic way to get a String representation of an object other than by calling its toString method. i.e.:

Code:

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String myString = tempNode.toString();

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but if the tempNode object's class doesn't have a toString override, the only thing that will come out will be gibberish.

Cirkut, can you post your linked list class code? Like Fubarable said, once you create a toString() method in your linked list class you can get the string representation of the object.