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Start your free trialJoshua Alvarado
934 PointsStatic class method vs declared class method?
So in this section, the instructor is making this character "letter" lowercase using the following:
letter = Character.toLowerCase(letter);
My question is whether or not Is this functionally any different from using:
letter = letter.toLowerCase(letter);
Kinda curious if it can reassign itself using it's own method here
1 Answer
rtholen
Courses Plus Student 11,859 PointsI am assuming letter is a char. This is one of the Java primitives, not an object, so it has no member functions to invoke.
piyush arora
5,735 Pointspiyush arora
5,735 PointsCharacter class wraps the primitive type char into a char object on which you can invoke methods.