REQ Assistance string to array

[registered user]

I'm trying to take a string, from a JOptionPane and change it into a
char array in which I can manipulate the characters as ASCII with
other char arrays and append into a new string. I've declared
tempArray as char[], and uPhrase is a string. this is a simple
vinere encryption program....not as easy for the beginner as it seems.
I have to take a key phrase, a test phrase and return an encrypted
phrase based on a ascii shift method.
any help is muach appreciated.

TIA
public char[] toCharArray()
{
char[] tempArray = new char[99];
tempArray = String.toCharArray(uPhrase);
return tempArray;
}

[Joe Attardi]

registered user wrote:

public char[] toCharArray()
{
char[] tempArray = new char[99];
tempArray = String.toCharArray(uPhrase);
return tempArray;
}

As an aside, you don't need the line 'char[] tempArray = new char[99];'
tempArray is just a reference. When you call
String.toCharArray(uPhrase), the toCharArray() method is going to
initialize a new array and return a reference to it, which will be
assigned to tempArray. As a result, the 99-character array you allocated
will no longer have any references to it, and it will be garbage
collected.

Incidentally, you don't even need this toCharArray method in your class.
Just call String.toCharArray(uPhrase) in your code instead of calling
this toCharArray() method you created.

Joe

[Chris Dutton]

Joe Attardi wrote:

Incidentally, you don't even need this toCharArray method in your class.
Just call String.toCharArray(uPhrase) in your code instead of calling
this toCharArray() method you created.

Unless of course uPhrase is a private instance variable, in which case
the user-constructed toCharArray() just becomes a wrapper over that
functionality.

[Joe Attardi]

Chris Dutton wrote:

Unless of course uPhrase is a private instance variable, in which case
the user-constructed toCharArray() just becomes a wrapper over that
functionality.

Good call, Chris. I didn't think of that case.

Joe

[Chris Dutton]

Joe Attardi wrote:

Chris Dutton wrote:

Unless of course uPhrase is a private instance variable, in which case
the user-constructed toCharArray() just becomes a wrapper over that
functionality.

Good call, Chris. I didn't think of that case.

Of course, it might be that the better answer is to have the class in
question provide a toString() method, in which case it could presumably
be used tramsparently with String.toCharArray().

[Ryan Stewart]

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I'm trying to take a string, from a JOptionPane and change it into a
char array in which I can manipulate the characters as ASCII with
other char arrays and append into a new string. I've declared
tempArray as char[], and uPhrase is a string. this is a simple
vinere encryption program....not as easy for the beginner as it seems.
I have to take a key phrase, a test phrase and return an encrypted
phrase based on a ascii shift method.
any help is muach appreciated.

TIA
public char[] toCharArray()
{
char[] tempArray = new char[99];
tempArray = String.toCharArray(uPhrase);
return tempArray;
}

Maybe I'm confused. What's wrong with "uPhrase.toCharArray()"? Also, unless
you know something I don't, there is no static toCharArray method in String.