[ale] OT, but not as OT as recent stuff (JAVA)

[Geoffrey]

Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> how did you managed to put number into the Object ? where is the value ?

The object is returned by a hashtable.  Basically need to do this:

longvar[0] = hash.get(key) - hash2.get(anotherkey);

The values returned are large numbers (data transfer counts).

> 
> Tomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:55 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] OT, but not as OT as recent stuff (JAVA)
> 
> 
> Okay Java gurus, I've come to the conclusion Java was designed to drive 
> you insane whenever you need to convert types.  I'm trying to take two 
> java.lang.Objects which are a series of numbers subtract one from the 
> other and store the result in a long value.  I've tried:
> 
> (long)theObject
> (Long)theObject
> Long.parseLong(theObject)
> 
> I'm exhausted....
> 
> Enlightenment would be blessed...
> 

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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