[ale] OT, but not as OT as recent stuff (JAVA)

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:56:18PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
> Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> >how did you managed to put number into the Object ? where is the value ?
> 
> The object is returned by a hashtable.  Basically need to do this:
> 
> longvar[0] = hash.get(key) - hash2.get(anotherkey);

Assuming the objects stored in the hashtables are Long's, and that
longvar is an array of long's, try this:

longvar[0] = ((Long)hash.get(key)).longValue() -
             ((Long)hash2.get(anotherkey)).longValue();
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