Error: cannot find symbol -- EC=Character.parseChar(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code"));

Question

My professor said that we need to input a letter to the dialog box in order for regular, probation etc. to show. I don't know how to resolve this problem. Is there something wrong? I'm new to java.

Here's my code:

import javax.swing.*;
public class EmployeeCode_input
{
    public static void main (String[]args)
    {
        char EC;
        EC=Character.parseChar(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code"));
        if ((EC=="R")&&(EC=="r"))
            System.out.println("Regular");
        else if((EC=="P")&&(EC=="p"))
            System.out.println("Probationing");
        else if((EC=="T")&&(EC=="t"))
            System.out.println("Trainee");
        else if ((EC=="C")&&(EC=="c"))
            System.out.println("Contractual");
        else
            System.out.println("INVALID");
    }
}

@AndrewSchuster I'm asking if character is right in this line: EC=Character.parseChar(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code")); — Rhea Mae Carlos Baguion, Jul 14 '14 at 15:50

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 17 '20 at 17:34

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Character.parseChar is not available in Java.

edited Jun 17 '20 at 17:34

Ardent Coder

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answered Oct 16 '14 at 06:41

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

As chinmay ghag pointed out there is no Character.parseChar in Java. You may use String's charAt() method instead.

Change :

EC=Character.parseChar(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code"));

To :

EC=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code").charAt(0);

See this for more information: How to convert/parse from String to char in java?

Also if EC is of type char then you shouldn't be comparing char's with strings. ie: EC = 'p' not EC = "p"

Error: cannot find symbol -- EC=Character.parseChar(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter employee code"));

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