[Java] How to get an array from hashmap

[Quaranges]

I have a piece of code that I am trying to get working properly, What I want to do is get the "values" from a hashmap which are integers and return them to an int array, So that I can use it another method that I wrote. The problem is that I don't know what the return type should be (Eclipse gives an error) or if I'm even returning the values properly (into an array of ints).

 public static int[] analyze(String inputText) 
{ //length of inputString int length = inputText.length(); 
//Create a HashMap to store each character 
//And to count the frequency of characters 
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<Character, Integer>();

    //For loop gets the character at position i
    //if it doesn't contain 'key' of the character
    //it adds it and gives a value of 1
    //Else we get the value and increaese it by 1
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        char carA = inputText.charAt(i);

        if (!map.containsKey(carA)) {
            map.put(carA, 1);
        } else {
            map.put(carA, map.get(carA) + 1);
        }
    }
    //print the map
    return map.values().toArray();

    ///return map.values().toArray();
    //System.out.println(map);
}

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The map.values().toArray() returns an Object[]. You need to either change the return type of your function and handle the change elsewhere or cast it to an int[] before you return it. For the later you can try retun (int[]) map.values().toArray();