Detecting if string or int

[Alk]

Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Java, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to see if an input is a string when it is supposed to be an int and then display an error message.

Thanks.

[Norm]

How are you reading the input?
Do you understand what a character set is? Each character has an int value. Considering single byte characters, For ASCII there are about 120 different values (about the same as what you can enter from the keyboard). The digits are in one range of values. Letters are in other ranges of values for upper case and lower case. The Character class has methods that will tell you about the type of a character: Digit, letter, etc.

[Alk]

I'm using Scanner to read the input.
I set up a sentinel like this:

int z;
boolean b = true;
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
while(b){
   System.out.println("Enter 1 to continue, or 00 to exit")
   z = input.nextInt();
   if(z == 1){
      //code
   }else if(z == 00){
      b = false;
   }
}

I just want to know how to display an error message and continue on with the loop if a string or a non-integer number was entered for z.

[Solarsonic]

[B]try {[/B]
   z = input.nextInt();
[B]} catch (InputMismatchException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }[/B]

There you go.

[Alk]

I probably sound like an idiot, but where do I put in the code? I haven't looked into try-catch that much yet.

[Solarsonic]

I probably sound like an idiot, but where do I put in the code? I haven't looked into try-catch that much yet.

Put it around your nextInt() line. Read up on Exceptions.

[Norm]

A comment on your code:
nextInt will read in a 0 or 00 or 000 as a 0. No way to test if the user entered: 0 or 00 or 0000