Conversion of String to Int

Question

Had some trouble with passing a string input via the command screen and changing it to an int. Im prob using the wrong code but im not sure if that is it.
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class P524Driver
public static void main ( String args[] )
     Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     // Input the rows of the Diamond
     System.out.print ("Input the number of rows (Must be and oddnumber): ");
int x = input.nextInt();
     String z;
     if (x > 0) //     Determine if the value entered was valid
     while ( x % 2 == 0 )
          System.out.print( "You Input a even number try again: ");
          x = input.nextInt();
          while ( x % 2 != 0)
          System.out.print( "Input the charater: ");
          z = input.next();
          int y = Integer.parseInt(z);
{else{ System.exit(0);}
}

Answer 1

Ok I don't know if this is going to work with your input, but here goes. The way I declared user input was as so : BufferedReader console = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); and the way I declared the integer value of the input was as so : int value = Integer.parseInt(console.readLine());Hope this helps!