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Derek Yee
Derek Yee

Reputation: 11

Convert a string into an int array

I was wondering how would I convert a string to an int array.

I created a reader to read from a text file, which consists of two lines.

  1. The first line is a random quote like "dogs are red"
  2. The second line are numbers.

I am supposed to save each character from the quote into a char array, and then the second line, consisting of the numbers, is the order number of each char, and when printed out in that order, it will spell out a phrase.

I used the .hasNextLine method to first save the two lines into two string variables. Then, I converted the first line into the char array, and that part is ok but I do not know how to convert the second part into an int array.

I called the variable holding the second line "numbers" and it contains the string "6 25 11 32 6 11 44......"

How would I convert this into an int array?

Thanks so much

Upvotes: 0

Views: 11160

Answers (2)

robotlos
robotlos

Reputation: 536

If your numbers are delimited by spaces like it is described in your post, you can use String.split() to your advantage.

You can create a method like the following which will convert a String of integers to an int[]:

public static int[] stringArrayToIntArray(String intString) {
    String[] intStringSplit = intString.split(" "); //Split by spaces
    int[] result = new int[intStringSplit.length]; //Used to store our ints

    for (int i = 0; i < intStringSplit.length; i++) {
        //parse and store each value into int[] to be returned
        result[i] = Integer.parseInt(intStringSplit[i]); 
    }
    return result;
}

Which can be called like so:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    String intString = "6 25 11 32 6 11 44"; //Original String

    int[] intArray = stringArrayToIntArray(intString); //Call our method

}

If you were to iterate through intArray and print each value with the following:

    for (int i : intArray) {
        System.out.println(i);
    }

You'd get a result of:

run:
6
25
11
32
6
11
44
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)

Cheers!

Upvotes: 3

Magnus
Magnus

Reputation: 18810

You could do something real simple like this:

String[] strArray = input.split(" ");
int[] intArray = new int[strArray.length]; 

for(int i = 0; i < strArray.length; i++) {
    intArray[i] = Integer.parseInt(strArray[i]);
}

Also, you'd want to check for NumberFormatException using a try..catch block.

Upvotes: 5

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