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aishwarya chudasma
399 Pointswhat does Integer.parseInt("30") actually do?. When we can directly initialize the age and compare.
What does Integer.parseInt() method do?
2 Answers
Jaxon Gonzales
3,562 PointsInteger.parseInt is the way for the computer to turn a String value into an int data value.
For example:
String numberToBeParsed = ("15");
int parsedNumber = Integer.parseInt(numberToBeParsed);
console.printf("%s", parsedNumber);
This would give a result of 15.
Alexander Nikiforov
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,175 PointsCraig's words:
it will take a string, whatever is in the string and turn it into a number so that we could use it.
Check info about it at tutorials point :
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/number_parseint.htm
and here is official docs:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt(java.lang.String)