Have a look at the Java Docs, in particular the following page:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

Look at the methods, find out which one takes a long as argument and returns
a String.

Best regards,

JayCee
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use "static String toString(long num)" defined in the Long
class.........this method returns a string that contains the decimal
equivalent of num........