is it possible to convert String type of value into integer using type conversion?

[chandrasekhar.melam]

import java.io.*;
class inout
{
public static void main(String args[])throws Exception
{
DataInputStream d=new DataInputStream(System.in);
int a=(int)d.readLine();
System.out.println(a);
}
}


if u compile this it produce an error message as "inconvertable types".
why it comes?
i mean, we can convert the byte to int, chat to int or int char or any other datatype to other.
but why string type converted into int?

[JosAH]

Strings and ints are two entirely different things (e.g. what would the int value of a String "foo" be?); not all is lost though: the Integer class has static mehods that can convert Strings to ints.

kind regards,

Jos

[aianta]

As mentioned by jos some strings cant be changed but if an String contains only an "int" then you can use Integer.parseInt(yourStringHere); to return that number

[chandrasekhar.melam]

thanks for ur reply sir.
sir I know how to convert string into integer.
but my question is,
we have type conversion concept to convert one datatype to another.
for example,
float c=(float)10/3;
here , we dividing 2 integers.
if u divide 2 ints we get int
but by using typecasting the int value is converted into float.
in the same way,
i want to convert string to int. bcz we have typecasting.
but why it produce an error.
send me the answer plz

[Fubarable]

It produces an error because as has already been stated, it simply can't be done. I'm not sure how we can state this again so that it's clear to you. You've been given techniques above on how to convert from String to int.

[fultonwilcox]

Maybe he wants to convert character by character. Doesn't converting a character to integer give its ASCII decimal representation?

Edit:
something like this

...
String convertedWord = "";
for( int i  = 0; i < word.length() ; i++ )
{
    int character = Integer.parseInt(word.substring(i,i+1));
    convertedWord += Integer.toString(character) + " ";
}
System.out.println(convertedWord);

...

% 26 68 48 26 59 60 27
or

int character = 0;
for( int i  = 0; i < word.length() ; i++ )
{
    character += Integer.parseInt(word.substring(i,i+1));

}
System.out.println(character);

% 9001

[Tolls]

Primitives != Objects.
You cannot cast from one to the other.
The compiler knows this so gives you an error.

In fact (with auto-boxing) it's a little more complex.
The compiler sees you cast an object to an int (or other primitive).
So it checks if that object could be of the Integer class (or other relevant primitive wrapper).
If not it then fails.