Converting an Integer to a String?

[Delta]

Can anyone tell me how to convert an Integer to a String?
I've tried this

String converted;
int num;

converted = (int)num;... but I got this error > Incompatible Types
converted = (String)num; ... but I got his error > Inconvertible Types

and ya... I'm not sure what else to try... I've looked on http://java.sun.com but all I found were library breakdowns... and those don't help worth shit.

[Tony]

eh?

code:

Integer num = new Integer(5); String word; word = num.toString;

[wtd]

code:

C:\> groovysh Lets gets Groovy! Hit carriage return twice to execute a command The command 'quit' will terminate the shell groovy> String groovy> class java.lang.String groovy> String.valueOf 67 groovy> '67' groovy> System.exit 0

Alternately...

code:

int i = 42; String s = Integer.toString(i);

[bugzpodder]

something like

code:

int i=42; String s=i+"";

probably also works

[wtd]

bugzpodder wrote:

something like

code:

int i=42; String s=i+"";

probably also works

Make that

code:

int i=42; String s="" + i;

And you're right, but that approach is also inefficient.

[Delta]

Very inefficient indeed... tisk tisk... lol
anyways ya Tony your way works best compared to the other peoples which weren't really converting but anyways... ya :S... have a nice day

[rizzix]

actually that approach isin't "very" inefficient. it does the same thing:
creates a Interger object and calls the toString() method.

the only possibly additional thing it does is a concatenation with a "" empty string. now i'm pretty sure the javac optimizes this to simply a .toString() call.