Java.lang.String.valueOf() Method

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Description

The java.lang.String.valueOf(Object obj) method returns the string representation of the Object argument.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.String.valueOf() method

 public static String valueOf(Object obj) 

Parameters

obj − This is an object.

Return Value

If the argument is null, then a string equal to "null", else the value of obj.toString() is returned.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.String.valueOf() method.

 package com.tutorialspoint; import java.lang.*; public class StringDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "compile online"; Object objVal = str; // returns the string representation of the Object argument System.out.println("Value = " + str.valueOf(objVal)); } } 

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

 Value = compile online