Say you have a string that you want to test to make sure that it contains an integer before you proceed with other the rest of the code. What would you use, in java, to find out whether or not it is an integer?
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Say you have a string that you want to test to make sure that it contains an integer before you proceed with other the rest of the code. What would you use, in java, to find out whether or not it is an integer?
If you want to make sure that it is only an integer and convert it to one, I would use parseInt in a
try/catch. However, if you want to check if the string contains a number then you would be better to use the String.matches with Regular Expressions:stringVariable.matches("\\d")