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Java instanceof question?
is there a way to check that an object is an integer?
say,
int a=0;
if ( a instanceof int) <---i get an error right here
can't find how what to define an integer when comparing objects
2 Answers
- ChrisLv 77 years ago
The problem is that "a" isn't an Object, it's not a reference. Therefore you can't apply instanceof.
However, this is a non-problem. You are the programmer, so you know the datatype. Could you give an example where you would actually need this?
