convert integer to a character

Question

I am having a problem with my java code, basically I want to do this;

char letter = 'a';
char convertedletter = letter + 5;
System.out.print(convertedletter);

the output should be f, but the output I get is 108. How could I make it an f?

Answer 1

try this:

char letter = 'a';
char convertedletter;
convertedletter = (char) (letter + 5);
System.out.print(convertedletter);

The operator "+" is used to add numbers or concatenate String, since you are using it whit a char (only one character) and a int it would return a int unless you converted it to char with is what you want.