Java - toString() Method

Description

The method is used to get a String object representing the value of the Number Object.

If the method takes a primitive data type as an argument, then the String object representing the primitive data type value is returned.

If the method takes two arguments, then a String representation of the first argument in the radix specified by the second argument will be returned.

Syntax

Following are all the variants of this method −

String toString()
static String toString(int i)

Parameters

Here is the detail of parameters −

• i − An int for which string representation would be returned.

Return Value

• toString() − This returns a String object representing the value of this Integer.

• toString(int i) − This returns a String object representing the specified integer.

Example

public class Test { 

   public static void main(String args[]) {
      Integer x = 5;

      System.out.println(x.toString());  
      System.out.println(Integer.toString(12)); 
   }
}

This will produce the following result −

Output

5
12