Key event problem

Hi i have a text field and i am trying to listen for when a user enters a value between 1-9 and the Enter being pressed
int temp = evt.getKeyCode(); // get what value is entered in my text field
if(( temp >= KeyEvent . VK_0 ) && ( temp <= KeyEvent . VK_9 ) )
// do stuff
}When i compile the obove code there are no errors but when i add this to listen for when the press enter after the user inserts a value between 1-9
if(( temp >= KeyEvent . VK_0 ) && ( temp <= KeyEvent . VK_9 ) && (temp = KeyEvent . VK_ENTER) )
}I get the following error message:
operator & cannot be aplied to boolean, int.
Can som1 tell me why it only works in the first case, but not in the second case. And what exactly i must change for it to accept the users 'enter' keyboad press.
Thank you

Hi i have a text field and i am trying to listen for
when a user enters a value between 1-9 and the Enter
being pressed
int temp = evt.getKeyCode(); // get what value is
entered in my text field
if(( temp >= KeyEvent . VK_0 ) && ( temp <= KeyEvent
. VK_9 ) )
// do stuff
}When i compile the obove code there are no errors but
when i add this to listen for when the press enter
after the user inserts a value between 1-9
if(( temp >= KeyEvent . VK_0 ) && ( temp <= KeyEvent
. VK_9 ) && (temp = KeyEvent . VK_ENTER) )
{It shoudl be
> if(( temp >= KeyEvent . VK_0 ) && ( temp <= KeyEvent
. VK_9 ) && (temp == KeyEvent . VK_ENTER) )See the == and not =

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