Parsing, or Splitting.. or manybe something else?

[MadamZuZu]

hello.
i'm very new to java and i have this problem.

I need to input a phone number and then split it into different numbers.
so, my dilema is how to do it.

should i take the input as Integer, and then try to split it into separate numbers?

or is there a way (like in C++ pointers) to input the integer into an int array right away, from the command line?

i don't know if im being very confusing... here's an example

lets say the number is 301-221-1083 i would like to have an array of
3
0
1
2
2
1
1
0
8
3

......... you know what i mean?

Thanks for your help!!! :)

Tanya

[Khalid Ali]

u get the input as a string.
then go thru the string using String.charAt(n) function,
and u can put the results to where ever u want

[MadamZuZu]

that worked, thanks
now i have another very stupid question.
how do i exit from a console application?
this is my code


if(PhoneNumber.toUpperCase() == "QUIT" || PhoneNumber.toUpperCase() == "EXIT")
{
System.out.println("Good Bye");
System.exit(1);
}
else
{
System.out.println(PhoneNumber.toUpperCase());
}


but it's not working, i tryied doig system.exit(0) as well as exit(1)

what do i do? it doesnt seem to quit.... :(

[Khalid Ali]

what do u mean? java will just exit the java program, but you will still be in the dos window. I hope thats what u were asking

[MadamZuZu]

for example... if i put an output line after my exit() command, it will still display it.... but it shouldn't, should it?

[sridhar_423]

String phone="1212-212-12-12";
char[] phomeArr = null;
phomeArr = (phone.replaceAll("-","")).toCharArray();


exit will terminate the execution.
my advice to you is to download the java api. there are so many methods and it is impossible to remember all of them.

[Khalid Ali]

as I mentioned before, if you are using a GUI then exit(0); should close the program, if you are using dos command window to run the program then your will quit but u will still be in the dos command window after that program exits...
So you have to make it clear here for us which one of the above is u are trying to exit
out of....