Java char is also an int?

Question

I was trying to get some code done for class:

public int getValue(char value) {
    if (value == \'y\') return this.y;
    else if (value == \'x\') return th         


        

Answer 1

A char is not an int. However, it is an integral type. That is to say, it's considered to be a whole number that can be converted to and from other integral types (long,short,byte and int), according to the Java Language Specification.

Basically what this means is that it is assignment-compatible to int. Its value is between 0 and 65535, and if you assign it to an int or cast it to an int and print it, you'll get the UTF-16 value of the character it represents.