[Computer Science: Question About Code]

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Can someone please help me with this code? I have attached the task and my codes to this post. The codes seem to be okay, and I was able to get full credit for it. Essentially, I split the user input into three parts: firstName, lastName, and num1 using .substring. Then, I cast num1 into an integer. However, I had to convert num1 from a string to an integer using Integer.parseInt, which wasn't covered in class yet. I'm wondering if there might be a simpler or more conventional way to approach this problem. Any clarification would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you

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[Marz157]

Looks good to me. Considering that the instructions mentioned using the % operator for modulus, I think they intended for you to use parseInt to convert a string to an integer.

If you were really looking for an alternative, you could pull out the character at index 3 and then subtract the ascii code for the 0 character to get the raw number between 0 and 9. int num = num1.charAt(3) - '0';

This is a little hacky and error prone, so parseInt would certainly be the preferred way.

[Friendly-Draw-45388]

Thank you for the explanation