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How do I generate random integers within a specific range in Java?

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In Java 1.7 or later, the standard way to do this is as follows: import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom; // nextInt is normally exclusive of the top value, // so add 1 to make it inclusive int randomNum = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(min, max + 1); See the relevant JavaDoc. This approach has the advantage of not needing to explicitly initialize … Read more

Asking for an integer [closed]

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When you’re using Scanner.nextInt() the input is expected to be an integer. Inputting anything else, including a real number, will throw an InputMismatchException. To make sure invalid input doesn’t stop your program, use a try/catch to handle the exception: int num; try { num = sc.nextInt(); // Continue doing things with num } catch (InputMismatchException … Read more

Is there a way to convert number words to Integers?

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The majority of this code is to set up the numwords dict, which is only done on the first call. def text2int(textnum, numwords={}): if not numwords: units = [ “zero”, “one”, “two”, “three”, “four”, “five”, “six”, “seven”, “eight”, “nine”, “ten”, “eleven”, “twelve”, “thirteen”, “fourteen”, “fifteen”, “sixteen”, “seventeen”, “eighteen”, “nineteen”, ] tens = [“”, “”, “twenty”, … Read more