Java.lang.String.valueOf() Method

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