String to Int: Roman Numeral Class

[tylerkung]

I'm making a roman numeral program where I enter any roman numeral (i.e XI) and receive an output of 11. I'm having trouble setting letters to integers

[Norm]

having trouble setting letters to integers

Can you give an example?
By letters do you mean Strings? See the Integer class. It has a method to convert a String to an integer.

[tylerkung]

Uhhh well I was going to have the user input a value through Scanner and set it as

String word = reader.nextLine();

and then set X to be 10, I to be 1, etc, and then calculate a value. I'm a bit confused as to which function does that.

[Norm]

I'm a bit confused as to which function does that.

Java does not have a method for Roman Numerals. You will have to write one.

I don't know what classes you are allowed to use with this assignment. The Map class would be useful.
Or you might have to use a chain of if/else if statements to get the numeric value for a letter.

[tylerkung]

It has a method to convert a String to an integer.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to write. Which method does this? ^^

[Fubarable]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to write. Which method does this? ^^

Integer.parseInt(...) does this nicely. Have a look at the Integer API for the details.