How to compare a string with integer in jsp

Question

I have a field in database called as enddate
i m trying to split the entire date and get date,month and year
once i store the date in a variable called as fmdate which is string,
i need to compare it with another integer.
how can i compare it..heres my code
stdate=RS.getString("start_date");
     fmdate=stdate.substring(8,10);
     fmmonth=stdate.substring(5,7);
     fmyear=stdate.substring(0,4);
and this is where i want to compare the value of j to fmday...
<td class="btext" valign="center">Day<select name="fmday">
<%
for(int j=1;j<=31;j++)
String s;
parseInt(s)=j;
if (fmdate.equals(s))
%>
<option value="<%=j%>"><%=j%></option>
<% } else { %>
<option value="<%=j%>"><%=j%></option>
<%
} %>
</select>
pl help me...
Thanks Srini

Answer 1

j is an int, so you're just adding 0, not concatenating. Perhaps something like this would work.
<%
  for(int j=1;j<=31;j++)
     String date = String.valueOf(j);
     if(j <= 9) {
        date = 0 + date;
     if (fmdate.equals(date)) {
%>
  <option value="<%=date%>"><%=date%></option>
<%
     } else {
%>
  <option value="<%=date%>"><%=date%></option>
<%
%>Uhm, I assume there should be a 'selected' or something in one of the option tags?