HOW can I convert int value char TO String

Question

I am trying to study Java by books, but sometimes it is quite difficult to find answers even to simple questions...
I am writing a program that analyzes a Chinese text in Unicode. What I get from the text is CHAR int value (in decimals), and now I need to find them in another text file (with RegEx). But I can't find a way how to convert an INT value of a char into a String.
Could you help me?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You are confusing matters a bit. A char is a char is a char, no matter
how you represent it. Have a look at this:char a= 'A';
char b= 65;Both a and b have the same value. The representation of that value
can be 'A' or 65 or even (char)('B'-1), because the decimal representation
of 'B' is 66. Note the funny construct (char)(...). This construct casts
the value ... back to the char type. Java performs all non-fraction
arithmetic using four byte integers. The cast transforms it back to
a two byte char type.
Strings are just concatenations of zero or more chars. the charAt(i)
method returns you the i-th char in a string. Have a look:String s= "AB";
char a= 'A';
char b= (char)(a+1);
if (a == s.charAt(0)) System.out.println("yep");
if (b == s.charAt(1)) System.out.println("yep");This piece of code prints "yep" two times. If you want to compare two
Strings instead, you have to do this:String s= "AB";
char a= 'A';
char b= 'B';
String t= ""+a+b;
if (s.equals(t)) System.out.println("yep");Note the 'equals' method instead of the '==' operator. Also note that
string t was constructed using those two chars. The above was a
shorthand of something like this:StringBuffer sb= new StringBuffer("");
sb.append(a);
sb.append(b);
String t= sb.toString();This is all handled by the compiler, for now, you can simply use the '+'
operator if you want to append a char to a string. Note that it is not
very efficient, but it'll do for now.
Does this get your started?
kind regards,
Jos