Thread: Problem with my code, help would be appreciated.

so here is the code fragment

private int getChoice(int lower, int upper) {
System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------------------");
System.out.println("Please enter your choice: ");
String userSelection = Keyboard.readInput();
Integer.parseInt(userSelection);
if (userSelection >= lower && userSelection <= upper){
return userSelection;
}else{
displayMainMenu();
}

the problem is ">="

where it says "bad operand types for binary operator '>=' "

first type: java.lang.string
second type: int

Integer.parseInt(userSelection); this line is supossed to turn the string to an int and now im super confused.

thanks in advance

Integer.parseInt(userSelection) returns an integer. you must create an int variable and store it, or simply paste the same code where userSelection is in the if statement

yeah thank you guys i got it to work