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Switch statement

Posted by kaushik on December 22, 2000 at 11:52 PM

Recently i have came accross a problem mentioned in JAVA2, THE COMPLETE REFERENCE,(CHAPTER JAVA.IO.*).The program reads a string(s) and stotred in a byte array buf through s.getbytes.Later the object of ByteArrayInputStream f is created while passing "buf" in command line argument.
here i am giving the problematic portion

......
......
boolean marked=false
int c;
while((c=f.read())!=-1)
switch(c)

case '&': ......
......
break;

case';': ......
.......
system.out.print((char)c);
.....
......

Now my question is how c(which is an integer) can be compared with case statement(which is charecter by assigning single quote)

However the program works fine and gives the correct output.

Can anyone help?

kaushik

• char can always be considered as int ... Kishori Sharan December 23, 2000 at 12:13 AM (0)