get a value from url - jsp

Question

hello! I have this url www.someurl.jsp?param=1 and i want to store the 1 into a variable

i wrote this

<% int r=request.getParameter("param");%>

and i have an error "incompatible types ,required:int, found:String" i wrote then this

<% int r= (int) request.getParameter("param");%>

but it doesnt work also...

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:35

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You need to use parseInt

<% int r=Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("param"));%>

answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:35

Mark Nenadov

+1 your answer is also same.but i gave some explanation.So i gave u +1 – PSR Jul 18 '13 at 12:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:37

0

request.getParameter("param") will return String.So you need to convert it to int.For that you need to do typecasting

like

<% int r=Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("param"));%>

answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:37

PSR

Hey, I gave this exact same code first, 3 min before he did :-) Oh well, I'm glad it worked for you. – Mark Nenadov Jul 18 '13 at 12:53

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