Useful Methods in the Wrapper Classes

As I mentioned, the wrapper classes contain useful methods that pertain to each type. For example, the Character class contains lots of methods for converting characters to upper and lower case, and for checking whether a character is a number, letter, or symbol.

The String class also contains methods for converting to upper and lower case. Keep in mind, though, that they are functions, not modifiers (see Section 7.10).

As another example, the Integer class contains methods for interpreting and printing integers in different bases. If you have a String that contains a number in base 6, you can convert to base 10 using parseInt.

Since parseInt is a class method, you invoke it by naming the class and the method in dot notation.

Base 6 might not be all that useful, but hexadecimal (base 16) and octal (base 8) are common for computer science related things.