how to know the string is number or charactor?

[lijun wang]

how to know the string is number or charactor?

[marc weber]

Basically, a String is an object representing a sequence of characters. One way to access particular characters within a String is by calling String's charAt(int index) method. Once you have that char, you can test whether it's a digit or a letter by calling Character.isDigit(char c) or Character.isLetter(char c).

[Ken Blair]

Depending on your requirements a regular expression might be useful.

boolean b = Pattern.compile("\\d+").matcher(myString).matches();

That's a simple example where b will be true if the entire String myString is composed of digits.

[Henry Wong]

The String class actually provides a shortcut method for this...

 boolean b = myString.matches("\\d+");

Henry

[lijun wang]

I tried to use this:
boolean b = myString.matches("\\d+");
but has the error in RAD:
The method matches(String) is undefined for the type String

WHY? I checked java API, string has this method!

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by lijun wang:

WHY? I checked java API, string has this method!

The regular expression engine was added to Java 1.4... What version of Java are you using?

Henry

[lijun wang]

I use RAD 6.0.1, is its java version 1.3, I can't believe, how to check the java version of RAD?

[Srinivas Kalvala]

Originally posted by lijun wang:
I use RAD 6.0.1, is its java version 1.3, I can't believe, how to check the java version of RAD?

You can Check the version very easily.

Follow the following procedure.

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1) Select WINDOW --> Preferences in RAD.

2) in the Left panle expand JAVA

3) Select Installed JREs

4) Then It will show you the JRE it is using,,

5) if it is 1.3 then change it to point to the installed 1.4 or higger.

But

RAD 6.* comes with JRE 1.4 >.

Check your installation.

Thank you.

[lijun wang]

I install a jre5 and set it as RAD dfault jre, but I still can't import java.util.regex, and String has no matches method, why???
Thanks.