Re: Converting a string to an integer

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:44:51 -0400
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"jt" <jt_printer_guy@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:p0mNh.14842$PV3.153572@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...

Stefan Ram wrote:

jt <jt_printer_guy@yahoo.ca> writes:

which is the letter O... O23 is the octal number. 023 (number 0)
would simply be 23.


  In source code, ?023? is an octal numeral. The method

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt(java.lang.String)

  only parses decimal numerals, Try

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#decode(java.lang.String)

  with ?023?.


Ahh... now I understand. So why did the program even compile in the
first place? I'm using Eclipse 3.2 and jdk 1.6
Is this one of those cases where Java doesn't pay attention to what you
are trying to do until you try to run the code?


    It's more like a case of Java not actually executing methods until you
actually run them. The method java.lang.Integer.parseInt(java.lang.String)
has a certain behaviour. Specifically, if you pass it the string "023", it
will return 23, and if you pass the string "O23", it will throw a
NumberFormatException. But the method does these things when the method
actually runs, not when you compile it.

    This is similar to the concept that System.out.println("Hello world!")
will print out "Hello world!" to your console when that method actually
runs, and not when you compile the program.

    - Oliver

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