Thread: Java casting/combining char

I'm trying to make the program generate a digit from 97-122, then convert the integer into a char then combine all the char together, but I have no idea how to combine all the char together. My code is

     if(UserInput.equals("1"))
     for(int LowerLAmount = 1; LowerLAmount <= passLength;LowerLAmount++)
        {
          int randomLower = (int)((Math.random()*(25))+(97));  
          System.out.println( (char)randomLower);
        }

So the LowerLAmount is the user input of how many char there should be, for example, if the user input "8" the loop would run 8 time and generate 8 random number from 97-122 ( hence the Math.random), then I want to turn the integer that was generated into char. For example let say the user input "2", the loop when generate 2 number from 97-122. Let say it generate 97 and 98. I would then want to convert the 97 and 98 into char, which would be "a" and "b". Next I want to combine the two together so it print out "ab". Thanks

You've posted some I want's but no specific question that I can see. Please let us know exactly where you're stuck.

Oh sorry, I wanted to explain it throughly and say where I'm stuck at, so I wrote that long paragraph at the bottom lol. But I'm stuck at trying to combine "char" together. Kind of hard to explain without saying what I wrote in that last paragraph again. Sorry

Ah, I see. You can create a String *before* your loop, and then inside of the loop, concatenate the char onto the String using the += operator.

Note that a StringBuilder will do this more efficiently than a String, but your purposes, a String will work adequately.

Note that you are using "magic" numbers, 25, 97, 122, and this can create code that is hard to debug. You should try to avoid doing this and instead use variables that make sense. Here 'a' represents 97 and 'z' 122, and so the code would make more sense using these chars:

public class Test {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      int min = 'a';
      int max = 'z';
      for (int i = min; i <= max; i++) {
         System.out.printf("%03d: %c%n", i, i);
      }
 
      System.out.println();
      for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
         char randomChar = (char)(Math.random() * ('z' - 'a' + 1) + 'a');
         System.out.println(String.valueOf(randomChar));
      }
   }
}

I try to create the String before the loop but it not working. Here is what I did

String LowerAmount="";
     if(UserInput.equals("1"))
     for(int LowerLAmount = 1; LowerLAmount <= passLength;LowerLAmount++)
        {
          int randomLower = (int)((Math.random()*(25))+(97));
          LowerAmount += (char)(randomLower);
 
        }
        System.out.println (LowerAmount);

Originally Posted by maple1100

I try to create the String before the loop but it not working. Here is what I did...

"not working" doesn't give us enough information to allow us to help. How is it not working? What is it not doing that it should be doing? What is it doing that it shouldn't be doing?

And again, avoid "magic" numbers.

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Edit: you're changing your loop index inside the loop -- don't do that.