I basically want ot compare an integer in string st[1] with another
integer in pc.
I tried converting st[1] to integer and comparing and also converting
pc to string and then comparing. Doesn't work in either case.

I tried it 2 ways:

if( (data =inst.readLine()) != null ) // reading a line from txt file
  {
                 String[] st = data.split("\\t");  // split using tab
as a delimiter

                 int st_temp = Integer.parseInt(st[1]);  // want to
compare integer in string st[1] with pc which is an integer

                 if( st_temp == pc)
                 {
                            do something
                 }
                 else
                        do this
  }

===========================
2nd way:

if( (data =inst.readLine()) != null ) // reading a line from txt file
  {
                 String[] st = data.split("\\t");  // split using tab
as a delimiter

                 String st_temp = Integer.toString(pc);  // want to
compare integer in string st[1] with pc which is an integer

                 if( st_temp.equals(st[1]) == true)
                 {
                            do something
                 }
                 else
                        do this
  }

It doesn't work in both cases as the integer that I get from st[1]
seems to be in a different format/encoding. the length of st[1] which
contains "596" should come out to be 3 but comes out to be 7. If I do
a substring extraction like st[1].substring(0,2) I get "5". Why is
that happening?? However, the string I get when I convert pc= 596
comes out to be string of lenght 3.

Please advise.
AL

I display the string before trying to convert it and so I know it is
"596".  I am reading from a file using readLine() of BufferedReader
and then split the string that I get from the readLine() method. One
of the parts of the string that I get is what I am trying to compare.
See my other message for my code.

I know it is somehting 7 chars long but then how do I make the
comparison. Is there a way to convert it into integer or to create an
stting with similar format from an integer?

Thanks a lot in advance.
AL

On Mar 19, 6:19 pm, Thomas Fritsch <i.dont.like.s...@invalid.com>
wrote:

I used the above code segment and realized that before every integer
there was a null char
so the output being:
s[0] = 0 =
s[1] = 53 = 5
s[2] = 0 =
s[3] = 54 = 6
s[4] = 0 =
s[5] = 57 = 9
s[6] = 0 =

So i just created a new string using the chars I extracted from the
above code.

Thanks for your help.

AL