jason hunter, author of "Java Servlet Programming"
(O'Reilly tea kettle book), offers a nice servlet
request parameter parsing class in his com.oreilly.servlet
package.  check out http://www.servlets.com/resources/index.html
for more details.

cheers,
p

// Paul Holser -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 4:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: String- Integer
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification
> > and reference
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Reeta Mittal
> >
> > I am having a text box in my jsp page which will always have Integer
> > values. Now by default all values from a text box are of type
> > strings. Now
> > how can I convert this to int type. I am using following line
> > but it is
> > giving error because we can not cast from primitive type to
> > reference type.
> >
> > Position=(int) request.getParameterValues("Position") + 1;
> >
> > Can anybody tell me the way of doing this ?
>
> I use constructs like this:
>
>    int position;
>    try {
>       position = new
> Integer( request.getParameterValues("Position") ).intValue();
>    } catch( MalformedNumberException mne ) {
>       // Set value required if non-numeric value was entered
>       position = -1;
>    }
>
> Note the Java convention of lowercase for first letter of
> variable/object
> names and upper case first letter for classes.
>
> > I am facing a very basic problem.
>
> For future reference, I suggest you take a look at one of the
> general Java
> programming FAQs:
> eg
>         http://www.afu.com/javafaq.html
>
>
> Steve S
>
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